Word: funds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will of the late Mr. Morrill Wyman '77, of Cambridge, recently filed in probate the greater part of an estate valued at $500,000 is bequeathed to the University. After a few private bequests have been provided for, one-half of the residue is left to establish a fund for medical research in the University the sum of $50,000 is also given to the College "for the promotion of good citizenship by the study of republican government," and a further sum of $50,000 will eventually revert to the University...
Draper Memorial Fund...
...establishment of the Henry Draper Memorial Fund has made possible the study of the spectrum of the stars. The Observatory has been eminently successful in this work and a classification was drawn up which was accepted last summer by the International Solar Union at Bonne to be the authentic system. In this work, a large number of new stars, variables and other peculiar objects have been discovered. A catalogue classification of 200,000 stars is now being prepared at the Observatory by Miss Cannon at the rate of 5,000 a month. This will fill eight volumes of the annals...
...sign their names on all pledges which they forward to the Treasurer. Last Thursday a pledge was received for $50 from a member of the class, but as he neglected to sign his name it has been impossible to enroll his name as a contributor to the Class Fund. Any Seniors who have not signed their names to their blanks are requested to communicate with R. St.B. Boyd '14, Hollis 30, immediately...
...fund was raised principally from the members of Burr's class, but some of his older friends also contributed. The committee in charge of the project was made up of three classmates: John W. Cutler, Lawrence K. Lunt, and Nathaniel S. Simpkins...