Word: yeshiva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey proudly announced a $450,000 gift spread among 138 privately supported colleges and universities (e.g., Duke, Smith, Yale, Yeshiva). Only restriction on the awards (biggest $5,000): they must be used solely to finance undergraduate study...
...fellow from Yale who was Varsity tennis and Bones was worried because they had asked him why he had dropped out of the ROTC. He was talking to the one from Yeshiva who seemed more worried about missing his fencing meet that night. The Cornell people had cancelled their plane reservations three times already and everyone was complaining that this thing was really dragging out. But no one left...
...Yeshiva University...
...simpler discovery made a long time ago: the moment that decided his future as a scientist. It was, he said, the sight of an ordinary compass at the age of five. One of his birthday presents, another honor: the new $10 million medical school to be built by Yeshiva University in The Bronx will be called the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
...thousands of children in Vienna and (since 1923) in New York City, still commutes by subway from his Manhattan home for office hours in Brooklyn. More than the medals he has received he treasures a thank-you book signed in 1933 by a million New York City schoolchildren. Yeshiva's new million-dollar department of pediatrics is to be named for Dr. Schick. His most enduring monument: the test which helps to save lives...