Word: funds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work of the Egypt Exploration Fund Society is now recognized in Europe and America as of great importance. The results of the explorations and researches, conducted at comparatively little expense, are shedding light on secular and biblical history, on the sciences, arts and industries of past ages, and particularly on the early sources of Greek art. In order to deepen the interest in this work, and to create an interest in the cause as well, a public meeting will be held in Boston on the afternoon of April 19, at which the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., of Cambridge, will...
...endowment fund of Harvard College will receive a large addition by the will of the late J. Sumner Wheeler of Framingham, Mass. Mr. Wheeler graduated at Harvard in the class of 1826, and at the time of his death was president of the Framingham National Bank. The amount of the bequest will be $25,000 if the entire estate amounts to $250,000, and $50,000 if the whole estate is $300,000. The use of the income is not restricted by the will, but is left to the discretion of the president and fellows, though by a codicil added...
...follows: "In case the inventory of my estate, as returned to the Probate Court having jurisdiction of my will, shall amount to $250,000, I give to the president and fellows of Harvard College the sum of $25,000, the same to be kept as a separate fund, and the income thereof to be used in such manner as in the judgment of the president and fellows will be most advantageous for the purposes of the college in any of its departments, and should such inventory amount to $300,000, then I give said president and fellows an additional...
...said codicil as shall be needful shall be applied to the support of religious worship on Sunday and other days, as the said president and fellows shall deem requisite for the purpose, and any surplus of income not so applied shall be added to the principal of the fund or used in such manner as the president and fellows shall deem most advantageous for the purpose of the college...
...library has been making some very valuable purchases lately, and has adopted a new plan which enables students to buy the best books at reasonable rates. A fund has been provided and from this it is arranged that the publishers of this and other countries shall send books, which are placed in the library and sold at ten cents advance on the wholesale price. New books are received every two weeks and the plan is meeting with great success...