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...first issue of The Harvard Athletic News will appear next Wednesday and will be distributed free of charge, to all squad members. Graduates may obtain copies upon payment of a nominal sum, the proceeds of which will serve to defray the expense of publication...
...Milton Fund was established under the will of the late W. F. Milton '58, as an incentive and aid to investigation and research. The specific purpose of the grants is "To help defray the expenses of any special investigation of a medical, geographical, historical, or scientific capture it, the interests of or for promoting, the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race: or to assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease, or to investigate and determine the value or importance of any discovery or invention...
...third endowed professorship was established at Harvard. In that year Thomas Hancock, uncle of the hero of the Revolution, founded by the terms of his will, a professorship of Hebrew and other oriental languages. For this purpose he bequeathed 1,000 pounds sterling, the income from which was to defray the expenses of the professor. Hancock, who was the first native American to lay the foundation of a professorship in any literary institution in this country, was born in Lexington. Stephen Sewall '21 was the first professor under this endowment. The present incumbent is W. R. Arnold...
Research. John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week gave $125,000 unconditionally toward the $1,000,000 endowment fund of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Also he gave $10,000 to help defray expenses of U. S. and European cancer specialists at a cancer congress next September at Lake Mohonk...
...which have proved so destructive to crops, particularly in Oriental countries, and whose precise nature and habits have until very recently been but little known. By comparing the material gained from all over the world we hope to gain a better knowledge of these destructive organisms. It is to defray the expenses of arranging and publishing this material that the money of the award will be largely used...