Word: vitalizing
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Financial support from alumni is a vital component of financial aid and the University's academic programs. Without this support we would not have been able to maintain the current need-blind admission policy. Last year, for example, over $36 million were contributed by alumni to the Harvard College Fund. Restricted scholarship fund (donors "restricted" their use to scholarships) are the largest single source of our financial aid budget. Very nearly all of those funds--that together yield more than half of college financial aid-were established by alumni. In fact nine out of every 10 scholarship dollars are provided...
...Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, Walt Kuhn and others -- made sure that Ryder was the only American to share its central galleries with the new European masters: Matisse, Gauguin, Cezanne, Van Gogh. "There's only Ryder in American painting," remarked Kuhn. "No artist ever used more of the vital energies of the imagination than Ryder," wrote Marsden Hartley in 1936, "and no one was ever truer to his experience . . . One finds his elements so perfectly true that even the moon herself must recognize them if she had time to look." For Jackson Pollock, in 1944, "the only American master...
...religion for radical politics. Years later, he felt isolated as the only black in his Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins and resumed churchgoing, currently at Baltimore's Bethel A.M.E. Church. Many other black urban professionals tell similar stories. Lincoln and Mamiya argue that the resurgence of interest underscores the vital need for better educated clergy...
...quench their thirst and stave off dehydration, U.S. troops in the 120 degreesF Saudi Arabian desert must drink up to 8 gal. of water a day. Much of the vital liquid comes from local bottled well water that is cumbersome to transport...
...Harvard's cultural pretensions, more first-years arrive with Guns'n Roses in their tape collection than Brahms. Though some students dismiss them as stodgy and outdated, choral music groups at Harvard are still very much alive. Directed by Harvard music faculty, the six major choral groups comprise a vital, vibrant part of the University's music community...