Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finance the remaining construction expenses, the Design School has initiated a fund drive of more than $10 million. William A. Doebele Jr., Associate Dean for Development, said yesterday that it would probably be about 2 years before the drive is completed. The money would also be used to endow new professorships, increase the number of fellowships, and improve the School's Library...
...Attica and classical background give such modern works as Matisse's Head of Jeannette an air of repose and permanence. Andre Derain's Girl with Long Hair has gained a depth of dimension it never had in France's Chardin Gallery, and the razor-sharp shadows endow Henry Moore's prowlike Standing Figure with a new monumentality. As for Renoir's Venus Triumphant, with her well-rounded grace she looked ready for installation above it all in the Parthenon itself...
...larger library now considered necessary and would still leave room for substantial parking space. But the land has been valued at $6 million, and its purchase would greatly increase the $20 million price tax Library officials had estimated would be required to build the Library complex and endow the Institute of politics that will be connected with...
...Ford grant, the largest single sum ever received by Harvard, will be used to endow nine professorships, to construct a building for international affairs and to sponsor international research...
...rejection letters, Jeff," he said. Jeff, who had wadded them all into a ball, tried to uncrinkle them. "Its the population explosion," said Brookstone. "You can attribute it all to that. Competition is just too tough." Then he added, with a grin: "All the same, I'll never endow a building at Harvard or Yale after this." But Jeff wistfully recalls visiting Cambridge and New Haven last summer: "Have you ever been to Harvard? The whole atmosphere is just tremendous. You can almost sense the learning and the traditions of the place. And Yale. I could get lost...