Word: fund
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paid about $220,000 for a spacious, durable and well arranged building; it has increased its annual expenditure for salaries of teachers from $20,000 in 1871-2 to $36,000 in 1883-3; its receipts have exceeded its expenses in every year since 1871-2, and its invested funds now exceed those of 1871 by more than $100,000" President Eliot in closing introduced Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was received with great applause. Dr. Holmes sketched the history of the school from its foundation to the present day, recalling the various professors who had occupied chairs during...
...Oration by Emeritus Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes. Presentation of a portrait of Professor Holmes and a bust of Professor Henry J. Bigelow. Prayer by Rev. A. P. Peabody. D. D. Dedication of the new building. Boylston street, to the purposes of medical instruction. Reception of subscribers to the building fund, and invited guests by the medical faculty. Exhibition of the building...
...speech was greeted with much applause and laughter. Mr. Choate also mentioned the receipt of a proposition by Samuel J. Bridge of Boston to present a bronze statue of John Harvard to be erected at the head of the Delta. President Eliot, who spoke next, referred to the fund raised to increase the salary of the president and various other gifts of the past year. He also spoke in the highest terms of the long enduring generosity of the state of Massachusetts which had done so much for Harvard. Gov. Butler in reply spoke in a very complimentary...
...first triennial dinner of the class of '83 will take place at Young's Hotel, Boston, Monday, June 25, at 7.30 P. M. The dinner is paid for, as all triennial dinners are, from the class fund. The book for signatures will be at Bartlett's until Saturday night, by which time all who intend to be present must have signed. It will not be necessary to wear dress suits at any of the class dinners. Song books have been printed for the use of the class at their triennial dinners. Those who wish to carry away copies...
...University of the City of New York is struggling to obtain $250,000 as a fund to mark the celebration of its semi-centennial, and who knows but that Governor Butler, who years ago erected one of the finest monuments in Greenwood Cemetery, might reward the courtesy of an LL. D. from the New York University with a handsome gift to the institution so near which he is to sleep the last long sleep? It would not be creditable to bestow the honor from a mercenary motive, but then Governor Butler is a scholarly man, and he himself has recently...