Word: granting
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David's announcement follows by a month the completion of his "Twenty Million Dollar Effort" to stabilize and consolidate the school. The drive was climaxed when the Ford Foundation gave $2,000,000 for expanded teacher training, busines research, and two professorships. The grant put the school on its most solid financial foundation in nearly 25 years and rounded out the Dean's ambitious plans for reorienting the curriculum and school's objective to post-war business conditions. "I think this is a good time for a young and vigorous leader to take over," he said...
...recent years was the flight by waterboys of three different committees to see which one could first grab a particular witness and the front page space that went with him. Each committee should be limited to specific areas, and then forces to stay within the bounds of the original grant of power...
...plan no changes in the present program," Philip H. Rhinelander '29, Chairman of the Committee on General Education, said yesterday. "We are very satisfied with it and, of course, are very glad to have the grant renewed...
Three other universities, Chicago, Columbia, and Yale, will also have similar grants renewed. Columbia also received a $50,000 grant to review present practices in general education at American universities...
...Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., received $50,000 to explore methods of setting up an annual survey of American college applicants. The prospect of sharply increased enrollment in colleges was responsible for the grant, John W. Gardner, acting president of the Carnegie Corporation declared yesterday. "Data must be collected on an annual basis," he said, "and it should deal not only with sheer numbers of students, but also with their scholastic aptitude, achievement, and motivation...