Word: fund
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Subscriptions toward the permanent fund of the school at Athens, of which public acknowledgement will be made, may be sent to the treasurer of the managing committee of the school, Frederick J. de Peyster, Esq., No. 7 East Forty-second street, or to Messrs. William Alexander Smith & Co., bankers, No. 58 Wall street, New York...
...Your attention is respectfully invited to the enclosed advance proof of an article on the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, which is to appear under "Topics of the Time" in the "Century" magazine for February. It is desired to collect a permanent fund not less than $100,000, as an endowment for the school. At present the school is supported by the annual subscriptions of sixteen colleges...
...important that the permanent fund be raised without delay, in order that we may secure the services, as permanent director of the school, of Dr. Charles Waldstein of New York, the young archaeologist who has won recognized fame in the service of the Cambridge University, England...
...secure it in its permanent usefulness the school must now be intrusted to the care of a larger public. It is proposed to raise a general fund of a hundred thousand dollars for the development and endowment of the school and in particular to employ a director of the highest fitness and ability. Our readers need no introduction to the archaeologist, Charles Waldstein, a native of New York, but now connected with the University of Cambridge, England, and with the Fitzwilliam Museum. The committee in charge of the school wishes to redeem the character of America, and to secure...
...whole, unjust; every needy man in college can work hard enough to be entitled to aid, and because a man who won't work hard, happens to be the grandson of a member of an old class, or a distant relative of a founder of a fund, he is not by that any more worthy of help...