Word: funds
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...total subscriptions toward the Harvard cot in one of Dr. Grenfell's hospitals in Labrador is $386. The amount necessary to entirely endow a cot is $1200, but a letter received from Dr. Grenfell announces his intention to deposit this subscription with Brown Brothers of London, as a fund to be devoted to that purpose as far as it will...
...Class Committee wishes to call the attention of the Senior class to the fact that only 200 men out of a class of over 600 have sent in their subscription blanks for the class fund. The response of the class to the call for subscriptions to the class fund compares very unfavorably with that of previous classes. If men who have not handed in their subscription blanks do not do so very soon, the committee will be unable to carry on the preparations for Class Day exercises which have already been started, and other necessary preparations cannot even be undertaken...
Statement as to Senior Class Fund...
...Class Committee wishes to explain to the class the purposes for which the class fund is to be used, and the reasons why it is important to have as large a fund as possible. The fund is to be used for the class dinner in June, which is free to the class; for the Triennial reunion and all succeeding reunions and dinners; for all publications sent out by the class secretary from year to year, and for various incidental expenses...
...Triennial costs about $1700, the class dinner about $1000 and the first class report about $1200. It will be seen from this that the class fund is subjected to heavy payments at graduation and before all the installments are paid in. A successful class fund must meet these expenses from the interest on the principal. Drawing on the principal cripples the establishment of a permanent staple fund. At first the contributions to the fund ranged from $50 to $100, but lately they have fallen off to an average of less than $25. Those who can do so are urged...