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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With less than two weeks remaining of the first administrative year interest in the Fund seems to be steadily growing...
Over 2500 men have contributed to the Harvard Fund up to June 12, according to reports issued yesterday. The total amount is now over...
...Chicago meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. The Chicago club, through its president. John S. Miller, immediately approved the suggestion, and other clubs are following suit. At this nation-wide meeting reports will be made of the contribution of the membership of each club toward the Memorial Church fund, and it is anticipated that the money may be raised in time to make a full and successful national report to the several clubs by return wire before the conclusion of the meeting. Of the plan, Mr. Burr has this to say in his address in Chicago...
When Theodore Newton Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., died in 1920, his associates started a fund to give awards to employes who had distinguished themselves by "conspicuous public service." Last week the Vail Medals were given for 1925-five in all, three to women. And so the public heard how Mrs. Josephine L. August, night operator at Cassopolis, Mich., frustrated an attempt to rob the First National Bank; how Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer...
...Clare College, Cambridge University, who will study in the School of Architecture; Martin A. Peacock of Glasgow University Scotland, who will continue his work in geology; and J. F. Whelan of University College. Cork, who will study in the field of literature. Under the provisions of the Commonwealth Fund, which was established in 1918 by the late Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, the recipients of the awards will receive on the average of $3000 a year for study in this country and for extended travel in the United States during their vacations. The main purpose of the Fund is to establish...