Word: funds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...This communication, with a great many suggestions which we have had from members of the faculty and from the students, shows beyond question that the general opinion is against a Bolles Scholarship and in favor of a beneficiary fund...
Seventy-five dollars have been subscribed to the beneficiary fund which is being raised in memory of Mr. Bolles. This afternoon boxes will be placed at Memorial Hall and the Foxcroft Club for small contributions. Though it is most desirable that this fund should be made up of a large number of small subscriptions, yet all larger sums sent to the order of the president of the CRIMSON will be promptly acknowledged. No contribution will be too small to be of value and every member of the University will thus be able to pay some tribute to Mr. Bolles...
...hoped, we have received several suggestions concerning the Bolles memorial fund which are worthy of attention. Best among them, however, is this: Instead of using the fund for a scholarship, it is proposed that it be added to the beneficiary funds of the University and used to help worthy students without reference to their standing in their college work Scholarships, as the name implies, are given as a reward for excellence in the line of study. A beneficiary fund is much broader than a scholarship because it may be used to help several men and because character and worth alone...
...order that everybody may know of the fund which is being raised as a memorial to Mr. Bolles, the main points of the editorial in yesterday's paper are here repeated. The suggestion is made that it would be exceedingly appropriate for present students and recent graduates of the University to raise a fund, in memory of Mr. Bolles, the proceeds of which should be used in helping needy students. This is the work in which Mr. Bolles took special interest while he was secretary of the University. It is desired that the fund may be created by a very...
...details, we can only suggest a few things. In the first place the point of prime importance should be to make the fund general; the size of it will take care of itself, but every man should have a chance to give with the assurance that no matter how small his gift may be it is welcome. Indeed the men who can give the least are likely to be most anxious to give, for to them Mr. Bolles gave most. Unless we are very much mistaken, enough money would readily be subscribed to found a scholarship, to be named after...