Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fledgling college has patterned a General Education program after the University's, has similar composition and language requirements, got its first set of football pants from the H.A.A., and has even taken Harvard faculty men onto its staff...
When in the next year the trustees set out to elect a president of the University, Einstein supported Harold Laski, professor at the London School of Economics. But the board desired an American educator and Einstein, displeased, dropped his name from the list of the school's supporters. In 1948 the Board elected Sachar as president of Brandeis. Then retired, Sachar had been an important educator--a recipient of Cambridge University's first Ph.D. degree--and for 14 years the head of Hillel Foundations...
...this country. Members of the University Associates group, who pay $100 per year, add an additional $700,000 each year to meet maintenance expenses. The National Women's Committee collects $5 per member and donates its funds toward support of the library. A modest endowment fund is being set up and Sachar expects it really to grow as soon as the school has an organized alumni...
...Set up in the fall of 1937 "to bridge the gap between liberal arts education and professional work" the course has turned out 316 graduates, who net an average salary of $3,000 to $5,000 a year. Top earners make about $7,000. The program is administered by two directors--T. North Whitehead and Mrs. Ragnhild J. Roberts...
...exhibition at Fogg has been set up with great care, imagination, and a deliberate striving for dramatic effect. Recordings of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" are played in the gallery, and the lighting is more impressively intelligent than at most exhibitions...