Word: endowment
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George Washington, who was first in war, peace and the hearts of his countrymen, was also first to endow a U.S. college with a sizable gift of securities. Washington and Lee University, reporting on the 100 shares of James River Navigation Co. stock (total par value: $20,000) which Washington got from a grateful State of Virginia and passed on in 1796 to Liberty Hall Academy (later renamed for him and General Robert E. Lee), said that it had yielded an average 6% from 1802 until 1892, when Virginia retired the stock at $500 a share. The University, having reinvested...
...cathedral was blasted. Within two days the airmen had raised $800 and turned it over to Father Reilly to help "build a new and greater St. Michael's after the war." By prevailing Melanesian building standards and wage rates, there should be some change left over to endow the postwar cathedral...
...adoption of the Constitution the states (or, technically, their citizens) gave up the bulk of their sovereignty; they agreed to share with the national government some of their most vital powers and to endow it exclusively with others. Even so, it took a bloody Civil War-a type of threat to future world peace too often overlooked by planners of world governments-to convince some of the states that the nation was more sovereign than they...
...isolationism before Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...
Inevitably through this treatment, Clark tends to overemphasize the psychological battles within the minds of each individual in the lynching mob. He seems to endow the characters with a hesitance, a doubtfulness about the righteousness of their course which would not exist in reality. The lyncher when in white heat blazes with his hate, he does not consider in rational terms. Clark's lynchers tend to think too much...