Word: fund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liberal were U. S. citizens at the time of Japan's great earthquake of 1923, so frugal were Japanese administrators of the relief fund, that last week a great modern hospital was inaugurated in Tokyo-built and permanently endowed entirely from surplus monies of the American relief fund...
...decision to raise the money was reached last September at a meeting of the American Chemical Society at Swampscott, when the need for such a fund was discussed, and a committee formed in supervise the raising-of a sufficient sum. At that time, Edward Malinckrodt '00, donor of the Edward Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory, offered to give the amount of $2,000, provided that $5,000, were raised in addition. The necessary total was reached this spring, and the fund now stands at $7,133., of which $5,571.50 has been already given and $1,381.50 pledged...
...will directs that the money be used in "establishing a fund, the income of which shall be used for any one or more of the purposes herein mentioned as shall be in the judgment of the officers of the college of greatest benefit musically to the college, to wit: In establishing and maintaining a chair or chairs of music or musical history or musical aesthetics or in establishing and maintaining scholarships or fellowships in music, or in giving public performances of the musical compositions of talented students and graduates of the college, and if preferred of other musical composers...
...Such fund," the will adds, "to be known as the James Edward Ditson Endowment, and any chair, or scholarship or fellowship, which is established to bear his name; but nothing herein shall prevent said president and fellows of Harvard College from investing the money as part of their general fund and applying a proportionate part of the income of their general fund to the purposes of this bequest...
...first thing that presents itself is the employment of the fund for the presentation of more concerns during the year in Paine Hall. At present the Whiting Concerts form the principal and practically the only opportunity offered by the Music department of hearing visiting artists...