Word: funds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gift of $6,300 has been given to the Harvard Annex, for the establishment of a fund, the income of which is to be devoted to a prize scholarship for the "Harvard examination of women." The gift was made through the medium of the N. Y. Evening Post, but the giver has kept his name a secret. The examinations to the support of which the fund is given, are instituted under the direction of Harvard University, and the young ladies who pass them are given a certificate as a testimony of their ability. This certificate is accepted in place...
...Authors' Reading in Sanders Theatre last Monday evening, $530 was added to the Longfellow Memorial Fund...
...urging our readers to attend the Authors' Reading to be held in Sander's Theatre on the evening of Feb. 27th, we feel that we are advocating a highly worthy object. It may, perhaps, be well to state that the reading is given in aid of the Longfellow Memorial Fund, and that several well-known authors, among them Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, have promised to read selections from their works. The entertainment cannot fail to be interesting, and the object is so worthy that we are anxious to impress on all that...
...Authors' Reading at Sander's Theatre, in aid of the Longfellow Memorial Fund, on the evening of the poet's birthday, Feb. 27th, promises to offer an unusually attractive programme. The object for which the entertainment is to be held is so worthy of encouragement, and the interest in the matter is so great, that the affair cannot fail to be a success. Several well-known authors have shown their interest by offering to read selections from their own works. Among them are the following: Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, Louise Chandler Moulton, John...
Best References: Blair in Cong. Rec. Feb. 9, 1886, p. 12, 38; Memoir of Peabody Educational Fund...