Word: funds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...papers of the University of Michigan are crying loudly for a new gymnasium. There is a gymnasium fund, but as yet no gymnasium in the University, This seems very remarkable, for the number of students at the University of Michig on is somewhere near one thousand, and there can be few places in the country where a gymnasium is more needed than there...
...need of a fund for a Divinity School library building is made more pressing than ever by the bequest of the late Dr. Ezra Abbot. The library for 4,000 volumes, which will thus come to the school, cannot be received until some fireproof building is provided. Such a building will also be very convenient for the storage of the present library of the school. Fifteen or twenty thousand dollars is considered a sufficient sum for a small library building, which could be erected in the vicinity of the school. This would be very convenient for the members...
...assuagements of the Loan Fund are ready at the Bursar...
Vassar College has recently received a sum of money for a fund to provide prizes for the best essays on Shakspere or the Elizabethan period...
...learn, however, from the last report of the Overseers that the Library now has a fund of one hundred thousand dollars from the Eben Wright estate with accrued interest, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the administration of the library. In other words the sum is not reserved for the purchase of books or for any one particular purpose, but can be devoted to any object which the library authorities may consider most necessary for a successful administration of the building in their charge...