Word: funds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fund was raised by a gymnastic exhibition given by the different athletic organizations in College, in order to fit up the room properly. $500 was then spent to procure framed pictures of old teams and to furnish the room with stained glass windows, a few glass cases, curtains, etc. E. J. Wendell of the class of '80 was instrumental in collecting flags and banners won by Harvard crews. These trophies, however, were left hanging exposed and have many of them partly rotted away...
...high reputation for progressiveness and efficiency, and that in point of organization, equipment, and general management, the schools of Brookline are not surpassed by any in the country. Mr. Dutton's successful experience both in New Haven and in Brookline enables him to bring to these lectures a valuable fund of practical suggestions that can not fail to interest all students of the important problems involved in the organization and administration of schools and school systems. The titles of Superintendent Dutton's lectures are as follows...
...resolutions which were adopted by the corporation of the college on the occasion of Mr. Gilman's resignation. An account is given of certain papers and memoirs prepared by advanced students. Some of these were considered by the professors worthy of publication and it was recommended that a fund be raised for the purpose. The paper considered the best one offered was written by Miss Follett on "The Speaker of the House of Representatives." This was too lengthy to be printed by the college and Miss Follett was fortunate enough, with the aid of Professor Hart, to have it published...
Miss Caroline H. Ingersoll of Keene, N. H., has founded the Ingersoll Lectureship at Harvard, which provides for one lecture a year upon the "Immortality of Man." The fund is arranged to be used on a plan similar to that of the Dudleian Lectureship. The first lecture on this foundation was recently delivered by Dr. Gordon of the Old South Meeting House in Boston, on "Immortality and the New Theodicy." Houghton, Mifflin and Co. will publish this in a small volume about the middle of February...
...Pierian Sodality will have three numbers of the concert to be given this evening at Association Hall, Boston, corner of Boylston and Berkeley Streets, in aid of the organ fund of Grace Episcopal Church. The selections are "El Capitan" (March by Sousa), "Grubenlichter" (Valse von Zeller), "Marguerite of Monte Carlo" (march by F. Osmond Carr...