Word: endowment
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...support undergraduate financial aid, I will give to those institutions that extend aid out of an honest, clearly expressed desire to improve student access to a fine education. A proponent of the Senior Gift could further accuse me of blind ignorance—the Senior Gift surely does not endow some malevolent discretionary fund that Harry Lewis uses to enforce a lack of fun over Harvard students. I am not, of course, so naïve as to believe this; instead, I simply believe that the point must be made to the administration that we will not tolerate neglect...
...American-English lexicon. To deny the usage of the word in any context, Kennedy contends, is to erase the word’s history and, potentially, the literature that captured this history, such as Twain’s oft-cited Adventures of Huck Finn. Similarly, this eradication would endow the word with more destructive power and heighten its taboo. The idea that the elimination of a racist term will eliminate racism itself is nothing more than a pipe dream...
Brown University—to which Taubman gave $3.2 million to endow the Taubman Center for Public Policy in 1983—issued a statement praising Taubman’s philanthropy...
...real loss we feel at senseless death and suffering cannot be explained or understood without a God to endow value to we peculiar arrangements of molecules. Nor can our moral outrage gain any traction without a judge and executor to give justification to our preference to live rather than...
During the capital campaign, the University hoped to endow 40 new FAS professorships. But only 28 were funded, and the size of the Faculty has remained relatively steady over the last decade. As a consequence of this slow growth and of the Faculty’s low turnover rate, Rudenstine has been unable to make significant progress in his stated goal of diversifying the Faculty. In addition, the University rarely grants tenure to junior Faculty members, driving many of the nation’s top scholars and teachers elsewhere...