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Boston Headquarters of the University Endowment Fund announced last night subscriptions amounting to $120.724, thus passing New York's total by a margin of $4000. Boston has been speeding up its canvassers, and the result has been a great increase in subscriptions. Recent large gifts include one of $15,000 three of $10,000 and three of $5000. In addition, it was announced that an assistant instructor at Harvard had pledged his salary of $1250 a year for five years, or a total of $6250, to the fund...
...York led Boston yesterday in the Endowment Fund drive. The total of the New York teams reached $1,155,000, while Boston had raised $1,088,276. With other districts counted in the grand total...
Although at time of closing the Head-quarters of the University Endowment Fund were not prepared to give exact figures, it was certain that the Boston total had reached very nearly the million mark. Earlier on Saturday it was announced that the fund was only $20,000 short of a million. It was thought, however, that several subscriptions received later considerably lessened this...
...Gardiner is one of several prominent Boston business men engaged in inaugurating a campaign for a fund to be used for the re-establishment of the University of Louvain. Cardinal Mercier has given his hearty co-operation in forwarding the plan. Any who are interested in the work may send contributions to Kidder, Peabody & Co., 115 Devonshire street, Boston. There will be no personal solicitation of funds...
Eliot W. Wadsworth, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Endowment Fund, and former Vice-Chairman of the American Red Cross, spoke about the present need of educated men. Mr. Wadsworth seemed to be greatly encouraged by the results shown so far in the campaign...