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The library was not named for its endower because it has no endowment of its own. Radcliffe supports Schlesinger its projects, and a 13 person staff at a cost of approximately $300,000 a year.

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: A Room of One's Own | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

The Nazis were sincere in their cult of the spirit. As sincere as the pilot who risks his life bombing children into the ground to safeguard their freedom. National Socialism canonized cliches but pulverized thoughts. The cultural shell was reinforced by official approval, constant repetition, and deliberate concessions to popular...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Watching the Holocaust--From a Distance | 5/18/1972 | See Source »

> Chicago Businessman Gordon Sherman, now 41, was the joke of the auto-parts industry twelve years ago, when he began hiring white-frocked mechanics to install gold-painted Midas mufflers and act like lofty physicians in "treating" croupy exhaust systems. Now the scoffing has given way to awed silence. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE POWERLESS | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

Cur t H. Reisinger '12, endower of the professorship, is a member of the Harvard Fund Council and of visiting committees on the University Library and the Germanic Department.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Karpovich Gets New Slavic Professorship | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

This is the first time since the inception of the college plan that student help is being used in the college dining halls. The tradition shattering step came in contravention of the will of Edward S. Harkness, endower of the Harvard houses and the Yale colleges, who provided that his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE ALTERS DINING HALL ARRANGEMENT | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

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