Word: fund
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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About a month later, on January 19, the committee made it known that the primary object of raising the fund was to have a portrait of Major Higginson painted by Sargent, and expressed the hope that the amount raised would be sufficient for the portrait and also for a large Harvard shield to be set into the panelling above the Harvard fire-place. The canvassing of dormitories was begun and circulars were sent out to non-resident members, but it was found difficult to raise a sufficient sum for the entire enterprise...
...Coolidge debating prizes, of $100 each, were founded in 1899 by Mr. T. Jefferson Coolidge '50. A fund of $5000 was received, and from the income of this fund the prizes are annually awarded to the best speakers at each of the two series of trial debates for the representatives in the Harvard-Yale and Harvard-Princeton debates...
...Surbridge '89 has established the Surbridge cups for members of the class-teams winning the inter-class and outside debates. Mr. Surbridge has also established a fund, from the income of which the John D. Long medals are given to the members of successful intercollegiate debating teams...
...Hearst, one of the regents, to organize a department of Anthropology in the University. Mrs. Hearst has donated 850,000 a year for five years for research in Anthropology, and Professor Putnam is chairman of the committee in charge of the research. Some portion of the fund will be devoted to the exhaustive study of geological deposits, to try to ascertain when man first appeared in California, and some will be used to study the great variety of Indian languages and myths of California...
...very rich collection of photographs of Norwegian scenery, to the number of several hundred, bearing on the subject of geology, which was bought last spring with a fund given for that purpose has just been received...