Word: funds
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...completed under the supervision of an alumni committee. The gymnasium will be connected with the Brokaw Memorial Building by a covered passage, and men will thus be able to go from the floor of the gymnasium to the swimming tank without going outdoors. The subscription list for the building fund, which is growing steadily, now amounts to $30,000, and the committee hopes to raise an additional $200,000 by personal appeals and circular letters to the alumni...
Contributions to the Yale bi-centennial fund now amount to $35,000. Besides this, $25,000 has recently been presented to the university by A. G. Vanderbit, to be used for the bi-centennial fund or for any other purpose desired by the Yale authorities...
...collection of a fund for the fitting up of the Harvard end of the living-room of the Union is well under way. Some weeks ago, when the plan of collecting the sum of $6,000 was first made public, the committee, in its notice in the CRIMSON, refrained from stating the primary purpose of the collection: This was to have a portrait of Major Higginson painted by Sargent to be hung in the Union if the necessary amount could be raised. At that time Major Higginson had not been approached, on the subject. Recently, however, he has been notified...
...country. Tweleve geologic llorizons are represented, the largest number of specimens being of the Carboniferous. Cretaceous and Tertiary periods. This latter gorup is chiefly made up of types from the collection of Heer, the eminent Swss pa aeontologist. Other specimens have been purchased with a portion of the Lee fund, among them a sereis of forty six choice slides of carboniferous plants, for microscopic study, prepared by Mr. Lomax, of Bolton, England. A few specimens were received from the Boston Museum. the acquistions of the past include a valuable series of fossils discovered in the Roxbury conglomerate...
...Frederick K. Comee (for expenses of Chamber Concerts), 50.00Mrs. Elizabeth P. Shattuck (to be added to Henry Lee Professorship), 25,000.00Oakes Ames (for improvements at Botanic Garden), 350.00Proceeds of a performance of Goethe's Iphigenia (towards fund for a Germanic Museum), 892.33Miss Abby A. Bradley (to be added to income of William L. Bradley Fund), 400.00Clarence B. Moore (towards salary of an assistant in the Peabody Museum), 500.00Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw (for instruction in kindergarten work for Cuban teachers), 500.00Anonymous (to complete telescope), 691.36Charles Peabody (special fund for Music 7), 40.00Frederick...