Word: funds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ceremonies incident to the laying of the cornerstone of the New Germanic Museum will be held next Saturday at noon. Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, whose donation of $250,000 forms the greater part of the total amount subscribed to the building fund, will be present. Professor Kuno Francke, of the department of German, and Curator of the museum will have charge of the exercises, and Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Imperial German Ambassador at Washington has accepted an invitation to speak. Mr. Andrew D. White, former American Ambassador at Berlin has also been invited to attend...
...year in the hands of those men who have been allotted rooms in those dormitories. The estimated cost of doing this is $2500; about 260 men are expected to live in these rooms next year, so the committee expects each man to subscribe at least ten dollars to this fund. The contract for lights must be signed on May 28, so that it is imperative that all pledges be in on or before that date; cards may be obtained of members of the Senior Dormitory Committee or at Leavitt & Peirce's. As the time is so short, the committee will...
...Harvard Medical School has recently received a gift of $10,000 from Mrs. William M. Underhill to form a fund, the income of which will be used for original investigation into diseases and disturbances of function of the nervous system...
...recent issue of the Alumni Bulletin there appears a communication that describes the workings of the Yale Alumni Fund and suggests that it offers a good model for crystallizing the interest of Harvard men for the building of a new library. As matters now stand, a student doing any kind of advanced work will find some of his material in Gore Hall, a little more in the basement of Appleton Chapel, and before completing his work, he has generally had occasion to resort to the basement of Perkins Hall or some other cellar that certainly offers no adequate facilities...
...plan suggested in the Alumni Bulletin offers a feasible remedy. The scheme is to form an association which shall be managed by directors appointed by the President of the University. Everyone who has been a student in any department will be invited to join by contributing to a fund, and any contribution, however small, and whether or not it is contributed annually, will be sufficient qualification for membership. After the Corporation has supplied the funds necessary for the immediate erection of a new library, the fund thus contributed by Alumni could be used to make up the loss of income...