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...doubtful whether the Administration would ever have favored the Tincher bill, because there is some doubt whether the revolving fund will revolve or will merely fritter away into frozen loans. Many farmers do not want their co-operatives to be saddled with these loans, much preferring a gift of $375,000,000 at once, and then a division of any losses above that by means of the tax against all producers...
...This was Richard Pindle Hammond (named after his paternal grandfather) who has developed into a young man of intellectual brilliance and versatility, with a special gift for music which may yet prove to be genius...
Soon a broad avenue at Versailles, along which rumbled once the vast golden coach in which Louis XIV sometimes dined, will be known as "Rue Rockefeller." Members of the Versailles Municipal Council grateful to Mr. John D. Rockefeller for his gift of $1,000,000 (TIME, June 9, 1924) to restore the Chateau of Versailles, decided thus to honor him last week...
...what effect Mr. Grimshaw's generosity has upon the financial situation of his university. His gift is welcome; make no doubt of that. But does it enable the university to accomplish more adequately the work to which it is already committed? Only too often it extends the work of the university without strengthening it at the center, or adds money to some fund which is relatively ample. Sometimes the situation is even worse than that: many a university has been presented with a proud building, yet has not received adequate funds for upkeep, with the result that financially the institution...
...what of professors' salaries, of the expense of giving regular instruction to the steadily increasing student body? Mr. Grimshaw's gift of a building or a scholarship fund or a research fund does not add a cent for these purposes. The situation of the university treasurer thus often approaches that of a man with an automobile whose engine constantly calls for repairs, but who is overwhelmed with Christmas presents of spare tires, wire wheels, speedometers, and fancy headlights. All these presents are delightful, but they do not help the car to climb hills! Or it reminds one of the situation...