Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ignorance. Dean Franklin felt that something should be done about it. One group of Boston alumnae was organized to provide free luncheon books to a small number of girls. Another paid $25 weekly for free extras in the cafeterias. And anyone who wished to could help further to endow a bowl of oiled beets or red apples, simply by buying a $5 vitamin ticket...
...Substitution of the word elements for the phrase bread & wine in the communion service. (Methodists use unfermented grape juice in communion.) C. Revision of the marriage service, deleting the phrase with all my worldly goods I thee endow...
Publicized into overemphasis, U. S. college football has long been a subject of concern to wise-headed educators. Last year Columbia's President Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler urged that rich alumni endow football so that football could forget gate-receipts. Said he: "Perhaps what is needed is an academic League of Nations. . . . Until something of this sort is done Columbia must remain one of those colleges which pays the penalty." (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Few other university officials agreed with President Butler, but at the University of Pennsylvania President Thomas Sovereign Gates last autumn inaugurated a system...
...gift of $250,000 to establish and endow a school for Boy Scout leaders was made by Mrs- Jacob H. Schiff as a me morial to her son the late Mortimer Leo Schiff, Kuhn, Loeb partner and Boy Scout president...
...Johns Hopkins, interned under choleric Brain Surgeon Harvey Williams Gushing of Harvard, rounded out his training in London (with Surgeon Sir Percy Sargent, Neurologists Gordon Morgan Holmes and Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson). A final polishing at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, which Philanthropist Edward Stephen Harkness helped to endow with Neurological Institute, and teaching practice at Columbia University-then Dr. Penfield was ripe...