Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This is the errand. Though a holder of no Harvard degree, my nearly seven years here has made of me a pretty affectionate sort of adopted son. I therefore wish to be on the list of contributors to the Harvard Fund, not because I hope to enrich Harvard in a material way, but simply as an expression of belief...
During the third week of the Harvard Fund, 501 men contributed to it a total of $11,165.30. This represents a larger number of contributors than the first week, but less than last week. The total amount, also, while considerably above the best total of any week in 1926, is under the total of either of the first two weeks of this year. By Saturday, April 2, 1,695 men had given to the Fund $52,751.55. At this point the Fund has more than one-half as many subscribers as it had in 1926; and has collected approximately...
Letters approving the Fund are being received with increasing frequency in the office of the Fund Council. If few of them show the candid eagerness of one contributor who wrote, "Please mail me another blank so that I may send more soon", the large majority are generously enthusiastic over the subject. The significant fact is that more and more of the Alumni are coming to realize that the Fund is for the many rather than for the few. "Being hard up myself", says one man, "but not wishing the gift to fail of unanimity." Another one writes...
...Council feels that this is the finest sort of testimony and well worth reprinting here. Ten weeks now remain before Commencement. On Monday and Tuesday last 220 men contributed $9,604.46 to the Fund. The Council therefore anticipates tomorrow the conclusion of a record week...
Twenty-thousand dollars has been left to Harvard for the use of the Arnold Arboretum, by the late Professor C. S. Sargent '62. Professor Sargent's will, filed for probately yesterday, establishes a fund which the president and fellows of Harvard are directed to hold, employing the income to purchase books on botany and forestry for the Arboretum library...