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...nine to give. It has been arranged by Professor James Sturgis Pray '95 of the School, of Landscape Architecture, who is a member of the American Committee for La Renaissance des Cites, in connection with the committee's campaign for $250,00 to be presented by America, as a gift of friendship to France, for completing the model village of Pinon...
...definitely cancelled. This action comes as the result of the fact that the late Jacob H. Schiff, who until last year had made possible the presentation of a $100 prize to the winner of the contest, did not make any provision in his will for the continuation of the gift. Beginning with next year, however, the B'Nal B'rith Society of Boston will award $100 to the winner of the contest, which will again be included among the activities of the Menorah Society. Previously the prize has been given for the best essay by an undergraduate on a subject...
...regards the high rating of personality we heartily concur with the new idea. Anyone with average intelligence can arrange an athletic schedule. Personality in meeting outsiders as a representative of the university is a gift from the Gods. There is much to say in favor of a strict merit system until a competition has been won by an unrepresentative personality. But too much is at stake to give a managership to a man that is the best errand...
Such a college must require large assistance from America, financially and otherwise, yet here the native people resolved to bear their share and gave what was for them and for that time a gift showing wonderful faith in Christian education and in the future. They contributed 160,000 plasters, actually about seven thousand dollars, but in purchasing power in that country the equivalent of at least $30,000, not a mean gift for education in the early seventies, even in America...
...local management, and ultimately the entire control of the institution, should be vested in residents of Turkey, that the native constituency should bear an equal and finally a preponderant share in the privilege and responsibility of this management, and that they should exercise this power not as a gift but as a matter of right, guaranteed by the fundamental law of the college organization. A temporary Board of Founders and later a permanent Board of Managers, each consisting of four Americans and four natives, were organized in Turkey, and the authority to elect successors, whether Americans or natives, was vested...