Word: fund
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...When the fund for the construction of Brooks House was raised, contributions were received from many persons who live at such a distance that they may never see the building for which they subscribed. For their benefit a pamphlet has been prepared and is now being sent out by the Building Committee of Brooks House, consisting of Professor F. G. Peabody, Professor G. H. Palmer, Dr. E. Winchester Donald, Dr. George A. Gordon '81, Dr. Edwin H. Abbott '55, and Mr. Robert Treat Paine '55. The pamphlet contains an account of the opening of the building with the speeches there...
Professor Lyon, Curator of the Semitic Museum, has just received from the American Secretary of the Egypt Exploration fund, nineteen papyri. These will be examined by members of the Greek Department, and in about two weeks will be mounted and placed in the Semitic Museum...
...University of Syracuse has lately received a gift of $400,000 for its endowment fund...
...merely a writer with no definite purpose, and from among the various branches of literature had not finally chosen the kind of writing which he was to make peculiarly his own. Truth in writing, that power that scorns the sham and pictures the real, Thackeray had, and a fund of brilliant humor also. He had lacked the personal and distinctive individuality that was needed to make him prominent and now for the first time, by a serious realization of his own powers, he was to achieve this...
When Mr. James H. Hyde gave the library for the new Harvard Union a short time ago, he also gave $20,000 as a fund for the purchase of books and for the maintenance of the library. Of this some four or five thousand will be needed immediately to start the library, but after that only the interest, amounting to about $800 annually, will be used in purchasing books. After the necessary books of reference and magazines have been bought, the committee purposes to pay especial attention to the collection of books of sport and novels, so that men will...