Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...management it may well gain the prestige and dignity of organized scholarship which is impossible to attain while the field is regarded merely as a part of an Arts and Sciences curriculum or when, although isolated, it labors under the stigma of pure vocationalism. Study under such conditions would endow men entering the state department with a far more scholarly attitude than before; the new atmosphere should encourage more students to enter the field as research scholars. If the school can bring about these results, it will render a great service for the cause of a more intelligent attitude toward...
...government of Guatemala is at present too poor to finance an effective program for eliminating the disease. The most probable source of aid would seem to lie in some American foundation which could endow a thorough campaign of operation and isolation which alone can effect solution of the problem...
...Thus endowed and with future summers assured, Bandmaster Goldman announced last week a new, ambitious project: to endow his band as a year-round organization, with its own clubhouse, rehearsal halls and classrooms. A huge chorus would be formed. Young artists could get auditions, musicians find permanent employment. Offering all the advantages of a musical club, this Goldman Band Association of America will campaign, as did Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Thea- tre, for 100,000 persons who will pay into its fund a modest $1 per year...
...that will fit men and women for lives of service." The great Stanford horse farm in the wooded hills of Palo Alto, 30 miles "down the peninsula" (southeast) from San Francisco, was to be its site and all the Senator's wealth?some $30.000,000?would go to endow it. Because he wished it to be open to all, with tuition free, the Senator said: "The children of California shall be my children." He asked Dr. Jordan to help him build Leland Stanford Jr. University and be its first president...
...Both boys entered Stanford University where Franklin's father, Professor Edward Curtis Franklin, is famed as an organic chemist; both took graduate courses in Harvard Business School. When Herbert Jr. emerged from Harvard, already determined to make radio his career, his father is said to have offered to endow him for $20,000 a year should he choose to undertake independent research. Herbert elected to work for Western Air Express, without parental subsidy. Within two months he sent for able young Friend Franklin to join him. The T. A. T.-Western fleet comprises 36 radio-equipped planes. Radioman Hoover...