Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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...
...involves a far departure from John Harvard's ideal of college training and implies a suggestive concession to utilitarian ideas of education. It is the fatal first step? Will there yet be regular courses in plumbing at Harvard and post graduate instruction in gas-fitting? Will retired bathtub manufacturers endow professorships there and steel-makers and motor car manufacturers found technical schools and establish scholarships in their lines? There are more things in a modern college education than were once dreamed of. New York World...
...meeting of the Corporation held recently the Bayard Cutting Fellowship for 1912-1913 was awarded to A. E. R. Boak 2G., of Vancouver, B. C. In 1910 a number of persons gave jointly the sum of $25,000 to endow a fellowship in memory of the late William Bayard Cutting, Jr., '00, of New York, N. Y. The income is $1,150, and the incumbent is to be appointed by the President and Fellows, on the nomination of the department in which the student is working, or with which he is affiliated...
...bequest of $60,000 by the will of Mrs. William O. Moseley, widow of the late William. Oxnard Moseley '69, of New-buryport. Mrs. Moseley's will was probated on December 22, and at that time the bequest was made public. The money is to be used to endow two scholarships in the Medical School. These scholarships, which will be presented annually, will permit students of slight experience in medicine to enjoy the privileges of foreign medical teaching...