Word: funded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Thatcher prizes of $150, the income of a fund established by the class of 1842 of Yale University as a memorial to the late Professor Thatcher, will be given to the winners of the Yale competitive debate to decide the Yale representatives for the Yale-Princeton debate...
...announcement that the committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which is to deliver lectures at Yale, among other colleges, is peculiarly gratifying, inasmuch as the opportunities of hearing men of attainment are rare at Yale at present. These lectures will doubtless prove to be very interesting, as a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work, will be chosen by the holder of the lectureship...
...HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 7. - The committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which shall deliver lectures in Yale, Harvard, Columbia and perhaps Amherst and Brown Colleges. The following Yale professors have charge of the fund at Yale. Weir, Bishop and Henry Farnam. The holder of the lectureship will select for his theme a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work...
...Eighteen years ago the Corporation, fully realizing the importance of the Library to the development of advanced instruction at Cambridge in all subjects, spent $90,000 out of their very limited unrestricted capital in enlarging the original Gore Hall. The unrestricted funds have never recovered from that abrupt reduction, - on the contrary, they have been still further diminished by occasional annual deficits in excess of annual surplusses. It is impossible for the Corporation to repeat that operation. The whole income of the University from invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure...
...committee wish to raise five thousand dollars, with which to found a scholarship for poor students. Of this sum, only fourteen hundred dollars have as yet been received. Subscriptions may be sent to the treasurer of the fund, Mr. Thayer, 8 Berkeley street, Cambridge...