Word: fund
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last day of receiving applications for the Bright and Bigelow Scholarships, and for aid from the Loan Fund...
...treasurer's report states that the cost of instruction and administration together for the year was more than $200 per student, and that the tuition fees received from students averaged $135.53. It is plain that these fees cannot meet the expenses of instruction. A large endowment fund is needed, for which the society has appealed. The permanent endowment fund of $100,000, to be raised by subscription, now amounts to $88,584.94, and is invested in good securities...
...Directors held on Thursday, Oct. 29, it was voted that the money subscribed in aid of the Society in January last be refunded to the subscribers. It will be remembered that the money was needed last year at the time when the Society was in difficulties, as a guarantee fund to ensure its continued existence. At the end of the year, the society found itself with a net surplus of stock of the value of $1000. The present year has begun with this surplus. The membership for the present year, and the estimated excess of receipts over expenses, fully warrant...
...plank walks are beginning to appear here and there about the college buildings with very commendable promptness. We hope that the interest on the fund for plank walks will be large enough to allow at least the annual addition to the stock. There are many places in the grounds where walks would be appreciated, where in years gone by, during times of thawing, men have been not only delayed on their way to recitation, but even quite frequently obliged to turn back and give up their recitations entirely. We believe that it is good for college and students alike that...
Johns Hopkins University consists of five or six brick buildings situated in the heart of the city. It has an endowment fund of $300,000 given by Johns Hopkins in the year 1867. Three of these buildings are laboratories; the chemical, the physical and the biological laboratories. The others contain recitation and lecture rooms and the library. There are no dormitories or dining associations. A student goes to college solely for work, and expects no class systems or class associations. He arranges his own board and lodging in some neighboring private house. In consequence of this arrangement, the faculty...