Word: programs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's another vital reason why, in spite of the costs, the Medical School doesn't want to cut down the scale of its research program. To be able to maintain such a show--with grants continually coming in from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the Department of Public Health, and many other donors--lends Harvard Medical tremendous prestige in the public eye and insures, in a sense, the reputation of the School...
Such a big research program, in which the grants received don't meet enough of the overhead costs, cannot go on forever. That's why the Medical School's new dean, George P. Berry, is quite busy these days reorganizing the School's money-raising activities in the hope of encouraging more gifts that have no restrictions attached. It will be quite a job to woo such contributions, for there is no romance in giving money that merely greases the wheels...
...program for each tour is arranged by students from the countries visited, who will travel with the participants and conduct the tours. Free time is included in every trip in order to permit the travelers to see and do whatever they want...
...periodicals, and pamphlets belonging to the Center or housed there on permanent loan is well over 3,500. These holdings, plus the 700-odd records kept in the Center's recording-studio, in over 90 per cent of the cases represent gifts to the Center from friends of its program: professors, student organizations, publishing houses in this country and abroad, university presses, national and international institutions whose programs stress the furtherance of intellectual cooperation, alumni, and other persons who, having visited the Center, and became interested in its work, seek through donations to increase its facilities. Berrien estimates that...
...membership numbers anywhere form 15 to 60. Refreshments--beer for the German Club, wine or sherry for most of the others--follow their meetings. The Harvard Council of Foreign Language Clubs, including a representative from each group, makes suggestions as to what types of meetings should be held. This program of lectures and receptions for professors visiting Cambridge is supplemented by periodic art and book exhibits and the presentation of short plays in various languages...