Word: funds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Class Committee will soon start out on the war path to get subscriptions to the class fund...
...Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology was founded in 1866 by George Peabody of London. His total gift was $150,000, of which $60,000 were to be invested as a building fund, and the remaining $90,000 were to go towards forming a collection, and founding a professorship. Temporary quarters were secured in Boylston Hall by the trustees of the fund, and some very valuable collections were obtained either by gift or purchase. Important among these was the gift of ancient Mexican pottery from Caleb Cushing. The archaeological and ethnological collections of the late Professor Agassiz, as well...
...school question enters politics, it will most probably be in the shape of a proposal to divide the fund collected for public instruction so as to support parochial schools. To grant a part of the public money to one denomination would entitle all denominations to a share. And sects like the Episcopal church, which talks of building schools of its own, would accept this. But the plan would be greatly to the detriment of the common school system...
General Sheridan delivered a stirring eulogy on the life and character of General Grant, on Tuesday evening of last week, at the Academy of Music, New York. The lecture was for the benefit of the monument fund, and the audience was large and appreciative...
...student committee on preparing an address to the alumni in behalf of the fund for the new gymnasium have sent the address, which was printed in the News a few days ago, to all the Alumni Associations and to many individual alumni. Already several replies have been received expressing warm sympathy with the movement and giving assurance of material aid. The executive committee of the New York Association have ordered the address printed and sent to each member. Mr. Johnes, '73, who has already volunteered to pay the architect's bill is a member of this Association...