Word: funds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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These lectures are under the auspices of the Cercle Francais, and have been made possible by a fund of $30,000 given in 1898 by James Hazen Hyde '98. A series has been given each year since then on subjects varying from the history of French romanticism to a study of finance in France...
...second report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which has been published recently, shows that there are now on the list of sharers of the fund 148 persons, of whom 133 are retired professors and 15 widows of professors. The total annual expenditure amounts to $202,145. During the year 1906-7 $5454.54 of this amount was assigned to Harvard, and was divided among three beneficiaries. Since the first of August the petitions of five persons connected with Harvard have been granted, so that the University now has eight persons on the pension list of the Foundation...
...Carnegie Fund was started in 1905 with an original endowment of $10,000,000, which has since increased to $10,719,486. During the past year the income was $644,031, and the expenditures $198,797, leaving a balance of $445,284 to be added to the accumulations...
...word of advice and warning to Seniors on the matter of subscriptions to the 1908 class fund may save a great deal of unnecessary trouble and comment later on. Large classes such as are turned out each year require a very considerable fund in order that the income may be sufficient to meet expenses...
...project for the new building was first published, has been abandoned as impracticable, because of a change in the scheme. A new set of plans, now in course of preparation, will be entirely different from the first. Last year at this time the amount available for the building fund was only $60,000, and at that time $500,000 was considered essential for the erection and suitable endowment of the school...