Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Porter left the University a direct bequest of slightly over $1 million. She asked for several specific expenditures, concerned in large part with libraries and museums; and she said that all remaining funds should be used to endow the new humanities-social sciences chair. A spokesman for the University's financial offices said yesterday that between $500,000 and $600,000 would be available for this purpose...
...Because of S.A.O. terrorists' attempt on his life fortnight ago, De Gaulle finally indicated last week that he would seek a referendum next month calling for direct, popular election to the presidency. The move is designed to endow De Gaulle's eventual successor with the same prestige and authority that he himself already possesses...
Relics of Feudalism. Hughes begins his history of the time of troubles as history itself begins-in apparent inconsequence. Hughes does not endow his characters with his own hindsight but sets them moving blindly into orbit. Augustine Penry-Herbert is the protagonist. In 1923, he is a young aristocrat, just out of Oxford, who spends his time shooting geese and snipe on the wild marshes of the coast of north Wales. His ancestral house, Newton Llantony, is servantless, its furniture shrouded in dust cloths. He ignores his feudal standing in the village, which is peopled by eccentrics, beldames, drunks...
...best example is Indiana's big (838 boys) Culver Military Academy on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. Last week Culver was putting on a $5,000,000 fund-raising campaign for a "Program for Excellence" that will create 70 new scholarships, build a center for alumni and parents, endow faculty salaries with $2,250,000. Even without all this, Culver has more excellence than most civilian schools...
...Combined Charities Scholarship fund has been dropped because last year's directors decided not enough money could be collected to endow a permanent scholarship. Money collected for the fund was turned over to the University scholarship office...