Word: funded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of the Yale alumni, considering that the present income to Yale University of only four hundred thousand dollars, is too small, have or the Yale Alumni University Fund Association, which is to be managed by nine directors and a treasurer. A pamphlet has been issued which describes the object of the association and the means by which it is to aid the University. All past members of the University are able to join by contributing to the fund, which will be applied to the general needs of the University by the University Corporation, and it is expected that...
...have been consolidated. Hitherto the banjo club and the glee club have been separate institutions, but in the future they will be united into one, to be called the "Yale Glee and Banjo Club." The net proceeds each year are to be devoted to the forming of a reserve fund of $2,000, and any surplus will be given to indigent students or devoted to such other purposes as the committee on donations shall decide...
...from Mr. Henry L. Higginson's "Soldier's Field" to the receipt from an anonymous giver of $5 for the use of the college, which was "gratefully accepted." The generosity of the various benefactors of Harvard is evident in the numerous gifts to the Herbarium, to the Draper Memorial fund at the Observatory, to the Library etc. Other gifts include $4,300 to fit up a psychological laboratory and purchase apparatus, of which $3,000 are given by Mr. William A. Slater. Hon. David A. Wells gives $300 to be used by the Political Economy department in such...
...chief interest of the meeting to me was centered in the President's report. The Club sustains two funds, a charity fund and a scholarship fund. The aim of the former is to rescue worthy Harvard graduates from financial emergency. For this fund, as the President happily remarked, there is little use, since but few Harvard graduates are at the same time worthy and penniless...
...scholarship fund makes possible for members of the Club a post-graduate course of study at Cambridge. It has already more than proven its raison d' etre. The present incumbent is doing particularly fine work in the graduate department...