Word: funded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS.The last day of receiving applications for College Scholarships or aid from the Beneficiary Fund, and for the Harris and Rogers Fellowships, Wednesday...
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS.The last day of receiving applications for College Scholarships or aid from the Beneficiary Fund is Wednesday, May 25; for the Tyndall Scholarship, May 10; for the Morgan Fellowships, Saturday, May 14; and for the Harris and Rogers Fellowships, Wednesday...
...Private versus State Railroads. Since 1833 the history of attempts of state railroads to evade and repudiate debts has been decidedly against the railroads, many of which were the means of misdirecting capital. It is perfectly safe to say the harm outweighed the good. Attempts in France to fund railroads degenerated into very much of the same scramble as a River and Harbor bill in this country. In the thickly populated parts of Italy, railroads were organized and built under government-control. In the poorer districts of the north, private corporations were allowed the right to build and control them...
...which he desired to give to the science of astronomy; the sum of $165,000, comprising about half of his bequest, having been received by the treasurer of the University, and the income therefrom being already available for the support of work at the Observatory. The addition of this fund to those previously available raises the endowment of the institution to a little short of $400,000. This recent increase in the means of the Observatory, Prof. Pickering states, will ultimately permit a corresponding extension in its work, but for the moment will largely be required for the publication...
Rutgers receives an annual endowment fund from the state of New Jersey sufficient to furnish forty students with tuition free of charge...