Word: money
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...distribution, tutorial, and general examinations. He fought for the House system and the construction of the first seven Houses. He championed the British tradition of College Fellows until the University was convinced of its merit, and then, when the plan for Harvard House Fellows languished for lack of money, quietly supplied $1.5 million of his own to endow the program permanently...
...students from their intellectual apathy, so he decided that since the University couldn't have both quality and quantity in its instruction, it would have quality. Accordingly, as the College budget increased from year to year, he held the number of Courses to a minimum and used the extra money gradually to hire a complete staff of departmental tutors...
Kerr, a partner in the Chicago investment house of Bacon, Whipple & Co., told the bankers that those "who know the invariable wisdom of balanced budgets, of stable money and of sound debt management must be moved to use every means to convince the people of this country that their standard of living and the freedom of their daily lives are at stake...
...early to "defend" himself, as the French say. Naturally independent, he soon becomes a proficient liar, steals from his mother's purse, cheats in class, plays hooky. Finally the boy decides to "faire les quatre cents coups" (go for broke). He runs away from home, and to get money steals a typewriter from his father's office. He tries to sell it, finds he cannot, and is caught when he returns the machine. Horrified, his father takes him to the police station "to teach him a lesson." The children's court sends him to an "observation center...
Died. Albert Joseph Engel, 71, onetime (1935-50) Republican Congressman from Michigan who specialized in ferreting out waste of the taxpayers' money, became the terror of free-spending bureaucrats and servicemen; from injuries suffered in a traffic accident; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Dogged, chunky Al Engel was forever going off on solitary investigations, once (1943) covered 48 war plants in 44 days by driving day and night, found that plant profits were often exorbitant. In his lifelong pursuit of facts, he uncovered some strange ones, e.g., a striptease show produced at intervals by the Baltimore Social Security Board. Occasionally...