Word: fund
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...results have been so satisfactory that your committee has determined to raise a permanent fund of $100,000, if the community responds, as we believe it will, to our appeal. This will make it unnecessary to ask for any more temporary help, and will keep this noble institution in full operation. A few large contributions of $10,000 or $5000 from the wealthy and liberal will assure the success of this undertaking. Several subscriptions have been already obtained, and your committee hopes that by the end of the year this important object may be secured...
...base-ball interest has entirely died out. The inter-class games, which were begun so enthusiastically, were necessarily abandoned, owing to the refusal of the two lower classes, especially the sophomores, to contribute their quota towards the requisite fund. The season has, however, developed several strong players, and we confidently expect to have a strong college nine in the fall...
...senior class dinner will take place at Parker's on Monday, the 26th, at seven o'clock P. M. The dinner will be paid for out of the class fund, and it is hoped that all past and present members of '82 will be able to attend. A book has been placed at Bartlett's, in which all who intend to be present at the dinner are requested to sign; those who wish to sit together may do so by bracketing their names...
...senior class dinner will take place at Parker's on Monday, the 26th, at seven o'clock P. M. The dinner will be paid for out of the class fund, and it is hoped that all past and present members of '82 will be able to attend. A book has been placed at Bartlett's, in which all who intend to be present at the dinner are requested to sign; those who wish to sit together may do so by bracketing their names...
Although the class committee and the secretary have tried to canvass the class thoroughly for subscriptions to the class and college funds, some we have been unable to see and several have desired to consider the matter, so that many who intend to subscribe have given no notice to that effect. I shall therefore be much obliged if all those will inform me soon how much they desire to subscribe. I would remind subscribers that the first instalment (one-fifth) of the class fund subscriptions was due May 1, and the first instalment (one-tenth) of the college fund June...