Word: funds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reading room fund now amounts to about $18,000. $15,000 more is needed...
Interest rec'd on fund invested...
...publish in another column a report from the treasurer of the Harvard Reading Room Fund to September 1, 1892. It will be seen from the account that so far only a little over twelve thousand has been paid, leaving subscriptions promised and unpaid to the amount of over nine thousand dollars. It is unfortunate that, while the need of this reading room is so great and the prospects are so good, there should be such a large amount of unpaid subscriptions. It is very easy for men to promise a subscription, but it is a lamentable fact that...
...resources of the library could be used in the evening without danger of destroying by fire volumes which could never be replaced. The college and graduates were canvassed for subscriptions, and the result up to September 1, 1892, was kindly provided by Mr. Moses Williams, the treasurer of the fund. It is as follows...
...residue of his estate. Next to this comes the gift from the Elizabeth Fogg estate, of $10,374 additional, for building and maintaining the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum. Through Alexander Agassiz Esq., $5.000 has been received from Maj. Theodore K. Gibbs, to establish the Virginia Barret Gibbs scholarship fund in connection with the Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $2,500 additional has been received for the account of the Draper Memorial. $2,000 has been given to found the Julius Dexter scholarship. Through Gardner M. Lane Esq. $1,300 has been given...