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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When the Harvard Endowment Fund office closed last evening 49.7 per cent. of the total objective of $15,250,000 had been raised. Of this Boston had contributed $3,107,575, or $25,275 more than the day before. New York's subscriptions were $2,699,151, and other districts $1,764,922, bringing the total to $7,571,648. The entire amount collected yesterday...
Francis Boott, of the Class of 1831, bequeathed to Harvard College a fund to provide an annual prize of one hundred dollars, to be awarded the writer of the best composition offered that year in concerted vocal music. The composition must be for four or more voices, and may be either with or without accompaniment, without solos, and either sacred or secular in character. If the former, the type represented by Mozart or Cirerubini is desired...
When the Endowment Fund books closed throughout the country last night, not quite 49 per cent. of the entire sum had been pledged, but today's subscriptions should easily carry it over the halfway mark. Yesterday the total was raised to $7,437,961, of which the Boston canvassers had secured $3,082,240; New York, $2,658,701, and the other committees...
Some of the men who made large subscriptions to the fund during the three-day stretch were: J. Byrne '77, of New York, $150,000; N. P. Hallowell '97, of Boston, $15,000; A. Koshland '90, of Boston, $5000; A. P. Loring '78, of Beverly, $5000; R. B. Williams '96 of Boston, $5000; E. F. Leland, '91, of Boston, $5000; J. R. Perkins '14, of New York, $5000; W. B. Nichols '16, of New York...
...body has issued a statement which comes at a singularly apropos time for those who had the distinction of seeing the Cardinal: "As a tribute to his personal heroism during the war, this committee hopes to be able to assure Cardinal Mercier, before he returns to Belgium, that the fund has been completed for the building and equipment of a library for the University of Louvain--his alma mater to take the place of that destroyed by the invading German armies...