Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bennett prize is $100, and is offered for the best essay in English prose on some subject of American governmental domestic or foreign policy of contemporaneous interest. The prize, taken from a fund established by the late James Gordon Bennett, is only open to Seniors...
...fantastic religious cult; there to prattle assorted mysticisms garnered from better established sects; to work the mountaineers into a frenzy that will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners. But she does. And the evildoers drink wood alcohol, thereby losing forever their sight...
...John Singer Sargent's large portrait which he called "The Wyndham Sisters," but, since it was gravely named by King Edward VII when he first saw it, "The Three Graces," that remains its common title. The price is supposed to have been nearly $100,000, drawn, from a fund whose name the directors refused to divulge, but very likely the Hearn Fund...
This year's course is one of a long line of lecture courses offered to the people of Cambridge through the generosity of Thomas Dowse, leather-dresser and book-collector of Cambridgeport, who years ago bequeathed to the City of Cambridge a fund the income of which was to be spent each year in providing one or more courses of lectures of highest character on literary and scientific subjects. Notable among the names of former Dowse lecturers are those of Edward Everett, 1811, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1821, Charles Sumner, 1830, Wendell Phillips, 1831. Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1864, and Henry Ward...
...plan itself is simple it calls for small contributions annually from every member of Rotary throughout the world. In this manner a fund sufficient to send many students from America to European Universities and vice versa would quickly be accumulated. It seems likely that Mr. de Rham's scheme will be approved by the International Rotary Convention this June. The purpose which has actuated the Jersey City Club is not by any means new but it is not and can never be shop worn. Mr. de Rham says, "it is hoped by means of this movement to strengthen the bond...