Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endowment. It began as a means of relieving the hard necessities of professors. Presently a new need developed. In consequence of the wider diffusion of prosperity the number of students doubled and redoubled; there was insistent need of more professors, more material equipment. Institutions already struggling desperately to maintain themselves were in danger of being submerged. One after another they appealed to their alumni, to love's of learning in general. A summary of sixty-eight such drives shows total receipts of $149,391,142 no inconsiderable sum. Harvard leads the list with $13,931,780. Princeton is second with...
Ostensibly to call "upon the [British] archbishops now considering proposals for the prayer book revision to maintain the Protestant reformed religion, as by law established," really to attempt to throttle the yearnings of many Episcopalians towards Roman Catholicism, 8,000 representatives of the Anglican and Free Churches of England recently gathered in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London did not attend. But Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks was there, presided, deprecated as usual all divergence from established customs, cried: "We have just passed through anxious times [the general strike; TIME, May 10 et seq.] . . . defeated...
Endowments. The era of physical expansion at the colleges had by no means, ended nor the endowment-raising era to maintain buildings and support the pedagogy that is to operate within them. The biggest campaign announced during the year was that of New York University, for 73 millions in the next decade. (During 1923-24 the total gifts to all colleges, not counting state appropriations, was only 91 millions...
While the details of the management are not definitely fixed as yet, the performance will probably be two hours in length and continuous from 2 till 10.30 o'clock. In selecting films, the management has declared that it will maintain the highest standards and procure the rights on feature films when possible...
...that Yale offers in true sportsmanship to place another crew on the river or let the Harvard freshmen race in the Junior varsity event, is not without significance. It shows even more clearly to the public than such moves usually do the fact that the college is trying to maintain standards of sportsmanship and honor and that this indiscretion of certain individuals is noticeable because of its deviation from the normal run of things at the American college...