Amendments to the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965: Hearings Before the Select Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 15196 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970 |
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Page 225 - City had given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.
Page 244 - The quote said that for the purposes of accreditation a museum is defined as "an organized and permanent nonprofit institution, essentially educational or aesthetic in purpose with professional staff, which owns and utilizes tangible objects, cares for them and exhibits them to the public on some regular schedule.
Page ix - There shall be an Executive Committee of the Board (referred to in this Act as the 'Executive Committee'), which shall be composed of five members and shall exercise such powers and functions as may be delegated to it by the Board.
Page 484 - Nor am I less persuaded that you will agree with me in opinion that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
Page x - States by reason of their services hereunder, but may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law (5 USC 5703) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 357 - It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.
Page 507 - Under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States, and the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, the Commission on the Humanities...
Page 123 - ... the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Page x - Humanities (hereinafter established), is authorized to — (1) develop and encourage the pursuit of a national policy for the promotion of progress and scholarship in the humanities; (2) initiate and support research and programs to strengthen the research and teaching potential of the United States in the humanities by making arrangements (including contracts, grants, loans, and other forms of assistance) with individuals or groups to support such activities...
Page 357 - The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man. It can be one of the props, the pillars, to help him endure and prevail.