Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social sciences course each semester. Amid his voluminous engineering schedule, however, the Tech student often regards his liberal arts course as a superfluous burden and gives it only secondary attention. Other engineering schools, notably those of Northwestern and Cornell, have five year program in effect; but they only grant single Bachelor of Science degrees. Outside educators also find that these schools waste early years on secondary school level material and thus later have to stress technical work rather than liberal arts...
...clarifying a Foundation statement released yesterday, the spokesman said that there will be at least 50 colleges included in the program, and that serious attention will be given to the University. This does not mean, however, that the University will definitely be included in the grant, for decisions as to what college will receive grants and the amounts given to individual institutions will rest in the hands of an advisory committee which has not been chosen...
Henry Ford 11, chairman of the board of trustees of the Foundation, said when making the grant, "Nowhere are the needs of the private colleges more apparent than in the matter of faculty salaries. Merely to restore professors' salaries to their 1939 purchasing power would require an average increase of at least 20 percent...
...poll, conducted under a grant from the Fund for the Republic, showed that an overwhelming majority of Americans were worried solely about personal problems. Another nine percent said they never worried about anything...
...enthusiastic body checking, climbed up the backs of Penticton players and slashed with their skates, an unforgivable sin in the West. The Czech referees' whistles were remarkably silent. After the Vs had tied one game, 3-3, and won the next, 6-0, Penticton's player-coach, Grant Warwick, had to skate around the ice blowing kisses to calm the crowd...