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...Making use of the shops and laboratories of Schenectady, it promises to become one of the best technical centres in the world. Rochester University, after fifty years of slow progress, has begun to leap forward amazingly. Since 1918 George Eastman has given it $4,500,000 to build and endow what should be one of the first schools of music anywhere. Last year the university obtained $4,000,000 from Mr. Eastman, $5,000,000 from the General Education Board, and $1,500,000 from another source for a school of medicine, surgery and dentistry...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock at Symphony Hall, Dr. William T. Grenfell will speak, some remarkable moving pictures of life in Labrador and Newfoundland will be shown and the University Glee Club will sing. This meeting will be held for the express purpose of helping to endow the chain of hospitals serving deep-sea fishermen...
...Grenfell, on whom the University has conferred an honorary degree. At this meeting the University Glee Club will sing, Dr. Grenfell will speak, and some remarkable moving pictures of life in Newfoundland and Labrador will be shown. The meeting is called for the express purpose of helping to endow the chain of hospitals serving deep-sea fishermen. Doubtless many Harvard men, including those who have aided Dr. Grenfell in the field, will attend this meeting. The Endowment Committee needs the help of forty of these men in the distribution and collection of pledge cards. Seats (free) are reserved for such...
...have long appreciated Russian art and Russian music. We have not recognized the substantial character of the common people of Russia or the economic importance of Russia to this country. I hope that some wealthy benefactor of Harvard will see fit to endow a chair of Russian economics in our School of Business Administration. I feel sure that freer intercourse between the two countries will be of advantage not only to Russia but to America
...years the school has gone on with no general endowment fund. The gifts it has received, which have not been many, have been for special purposes. One of $150,000 was to build Austin Hall; others to endow professorships, the income from some of which has been insufficient to pay proper salaries, and the deficit has been made up from the general income of the school...