Word: sponsorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the great number of applicants for its 25 open places, the Glee Club itself is in a very healthy position. But many of its aspirants who failed to qualify are now stranded without a group to sing for. Through its sponsorship of the freshman chorus it has greatly increaser participation in choral singing at Harvard. Since the Club cannot enlarge its present membership and still remain a well-disciplined group, it should also sponsor a chorus for upperclassmen, similar to the freshman organization. The overflow could then continue to sing. Only the Glee Club has the necessary organization...
Rights & Incentives. Dick Carmichael and colleagues went to work. President Eisenhower was consulted, and under his sponsorship the 1955 military pay raise bill, with its built-in incentives to reenlist, was passed by Congress. So were measures giving servicemen an extra month's rental allowance for each permanent change of station and offering to men still in the services the home-mortgage rights now enjoyed by veterans...
...very encouraging to note the U.S. Air Force's sponsorship of Dr. Buchman and his Moral Re-Armament tour. Finer work can scarcely be imagined. My own group is making immediate application for like treatment. We have a small but growing schism from M.R.A., based on the doctrine that God is at least a billionaire...
...word of Hiroshima, he seemed unwilling to believe it. "Ach," he said sadly. "The world is not yet ready for it." As A-bomb led to H-bomb, and the atomic arms race began, he lent his prestige to almost any ban-the-bomb society that asked his sponsorship. Einstein's otherworldliness grew more pronounced. "The wish to withdraw into myself," he wrote, "increases with the years." But though his political forays were often Utopian, his scientific imagination still soared. He had unified the concepts of space and time, matter and energy, gravitation and inertia, yet two great cosmic...
...North Whitehead, Director of the Management Training Program at Radcliffe for 11 years, will retire in June, President Wilbur K. Jordan announced yesterday. Whitehead, who is also on the faculty of the Business School, was influential in bringing about MTP's joint sponsorship by Radcliffe and the Business School last spring. President Jordan said yesterday that Whitehead, in the period of a decade, brought the Management Training Program from a "period of interesting experimentation to one of academic maturity...