Word: schooling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fund drives for General Education, scholarships, and the Medical School have been postponed for the present, University officials reported yesterday...
...Medical School will not make any public drive at this time," Dean Berry said yesterday, "but organizational work for the future will continue." The School of Public Health, where a fund drive has also been considered, will instead continue to rely on gifts from foundations and similar groups...
With Carnegie Tech's football team in a long losing streak, Doherty refused to go into the market for better players, took the Skibos out of big-time football entirely ("Perhaps you came to the wrong school," he snapped at protesting students). He increased his research budget sixfold, extended it to bolster fields, where Carnegie had never excelled. He built a new petroleum laboratory, spent $1,800,000 for a nuclear research center...
...twin extremes of irremediable hunger and absolute homelessness. This was rather like reproaching a man who had lost both arms with not having lost both legs as well. For several years, Wells lived in an exhausting state of penury, lunching off a roll of bread, attending science school with only one battered collar (made of celluloid and washed every night) between him and ignominy. All that sustained him, and continued to do so until his last, embittered years, was the passionate belief that knowledge alone could save mankind, and that consequently "the final decision as to the fate of life...
Dean Mason of the School of Public Administration was "worried, by the effect of union labor, since it represented not the people but a well-organized pressure group...