Word: funded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Carter, of Williams, has received a gift of $20,000 to found a library fund, in honor of James Ruthven Adriance of the class of '78, who died a year after graduation...
...that occasion. Up to the present time very few of the pamphlets have been sold-too few in fact to pay even a small part of the cost for printing them. This bill must be paid in some way and the money will have to come from the class fund if the rest of the books are not sold. As the pamphlet is in itself an interesting souvenir and the price of it is trifling, we urge every member of the class to buy one and pay off the debt that the printing of it has caused, in the easiest...
...present building is wholly inadequate to the ever-increasing wants of the college. The apparatus, though of the latest pattern is not in sufficient quantity to warrant many students exercising at the same time. Dissatisfaction with the present state of affairs has resulted in the raising of a fund for the erection of a new gymnasium, which is to be larger than the old and to be centrally located. Professor Richards, who has the collection of funds in charge, has announced that although he has met with almost universal support in his application for assistance, still there is scarcely enough...
...process of erection at the University of Pennsylvania a library building which, when completed will be the finest and best equipped one attached to any college in this country. The money needed for the building is being raised from subscriptions by the alumni, and a large fund has already been collected. It is estimated that the library will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $180,000. The style of architecture is what is known as the French Gothic, designed and planned by a well-known Philadelphian architect, Mr. Frank Furness. The distance of the library from College Hall...
Once more the committee urge a prompt payment of the first instalment of the subscriptions to the Class Fund, that the financial condition of the class may be sound from the first. Subscriptions may be handed to any member of the committee or sent directly...