Word: fund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Hospital Fund of New York fortnight ago published the first thorough analysis of the financing of those institutions. To run them cost $109,244,000 in the year studied (1934). They received $107,031,000 (44.5% from taxes, 40.6% from patients, 9.3% from contributions, 5.6% from endowment and invested funds). There remained a net deficit of about $2,200,000. Part of that deficit was paid by the United Hospital Fund. Part of it just piled up like an Ally's War debt. And it would have been millions greater if the institutions had been...
Last week Kentucky-reared Edwin Rogers Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, went to University of Georgia to make a commencement speech on "How to Tell a College Graduate from the Birds and Fishes." Mr. Embree recalled that when he was a boy the South had its own formula for the ideal man: a scholar, a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey. This triple ideal, said he, is still an admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he received riches also...
...Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, Scholarship for a year of study at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and also the Lieutenant Charles Henry Fiske, 3d, Fund for Travel or Study in France, have been awarded to Edwin C. Hoyt of Brentwood, Long Island, N. Y., who will graduate cum laude in History...
...International Eugène Ysaÿe, with a check from Queen Elisabeth for 50.000 Belgian francs ($1,695). Second prize: 25,000 francs, presented by the Belgian Minister of Education; ten smaller prizes ranging from 20,000 to 4,000 francs, presented by the Eugene Ysaÿe Fund. Judges of the contest, named by Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Musical Foundation, included eight world-famous pianists...
...Seminary by driving a taxicab. Last week, wearing clericals as seminarians do, Raymond Heintz turned in his last trip card to the cab company. Next week he is to be ordained. Pittsburgh taximen, 500 of whom planned to attend Father Heintz's first Mass, got up a fund, presented him with a fine gold chalice...