Word: funded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...photographing of the heavens has continued at Cambridge and at Pern by the Draper memorial fund, where at Chosica Mr. B dev has taken 1,309 photographs including almost the entire southern heaven from 20 degrees south of the equator to the south pole...
Work under the boyden fund has been continued in Pern California and Cambridge in the last of which places Professor Pickering took personal charge of the work, making observations on Mars and experimenting in astronomical photography. Researches were made on the meteorology of the earth and on the nebulous region in Orion...
...back with him say, at least five dollars as the fruit of his personal effort in behalf of this work? While we doubt if many men who had made an earnest effort would return with so small a result, five dollars from each man would add materially to the fund and render for the University at large the benefit of a student testimony to the fact that Harvard cannot grow without funds...
After 1890-91 the award of scholarships to freshmen in January and to seniors in June will be discontinued. The Bright scholarships are reduced from $250 to $200. The Gambrill scholarship of $400. the Henry B. Humphry fund of $10, 000 are new foundations and the Palfrey Exhibition is reduced...
...addition to the former beneficiary aids, the Holmes scholarships, one in each class in college, are set forth. These are filled by students from Waterbury, Wolcott, Prospect and Middlebury, Ct., who receive each the income of one thousand dollars a year. To the list of scholarships is added the fund of forty thousand dollars, from the estate of Thomas G. Waterman, Yale '86. The income is given by the faculty to not more than three scholars from the Junior or Senior Class, or from graduates of the department of not more than two years' standing, who give promise of achieving...