Word: fund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Hoffman, pioneer administrator of the Marshall Plan and now managing director of the United Nations Special Fund, saw a need for a coordinated global effort to replace sporadic philanthropy. Said Hoffman: "All countries, whether their incomes are high, medium or low, must in their own self-interest accept proportionate responsibility for a rapidly expanding world economy...
...anonymous gift of $10,000 has already covered a tenth of the estimated expenses for the Glee Club's proposed tour of Southeast Asia during the summer of 1961. The sum was recently contributed to the general fund for the trip and is not restricted in any way, according to Elliot Forbes '40, director of the Glee Club...
...Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund, which also honors one of Miss Bullard's brothers, will be used at the Medical School for "the advancement of research in neurological development." This grant was made directly to the Department of Neurology; it was not made for any specific project...
...gift of 100 pounds to Harvard in 1643, the largest the College had received up to that time, was directly solicited by John Weld, from Roxbury. Weld persuaded Ann Radcliffe, who never saw America, both to set up a trust fund, the income of which was to be used solely for scholarship purposes, and to name his son, a Junior in the College, first recipient of the award...
Years later, when women were first being allowed to study at the College, the Corporation again recognized Ann Radcliffe's gift as a separate fund and decided to name the women's annex...