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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Senkiors are reminded that the first installment on all pledges to the Class Fund are due on or before June 1, Checks should be mailed to the Class Treasurer, L. K. Garrison, Claverly Hall. Cambridge, and should be made payable to the 1919 Class Fund...
...series of articles discussing various plans for the Harvard Memorial is appearing from time to time in issues of the CRIMSON. A different plan is set forth in a communication in the Alumni Bulletin, which proposes that the Harvard Endowment Fund be changed into a Harvard Memorial Fund. But such a plan seems undesirable for it would commercialize the spirit of commemoration which should be the key note of the final memorial. Time alone will determine whether any of the plans under consideration will be selected, but the CRIMSON will be glad to publish any criticism or any new suggestions...
...first engineering school in the University was founded in 1847, when the Corporation and Board of Overseers instituted a school of applied science and named it the Lawrence Scientific school, in honor of Abbott Lawrence, its first benefactor. About sixty years later, when income became available from the fund bequeathed by Gordon McKay for the development of applied sciences in all its phases, particularly engineering, the scope of this work was enlarged, and the Graduate Schools of Applied Science were established, including the School of Engineering and the Mining School. These schools took over and developed the advanced professional...
...University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agreed to co-operate in the conduct of instruction and research in engineering and mining. As this agreement involved the use of the McKay Fund, it was subject to the approval of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. After three years of litagation, that body declared that Mr. McKay had intended that his fortune should be spent solely for the University, and that it was therefore not within the powers of the University to combine with M. I. T. Thereupon the departments of Engineering and Mining, with a new department of Industrial Chemistry, were...
...additional $5,000 is also necessary to complete the Class Fund. Pledge-cards have been sent to every member of the class who has not yet subscribed. Those who fail to receive cards or who wish to contribute further may apply for these cards at the Sanctum of the CRIMSON Building at any hour of the day. When made out, they should be sent at once to the Treasurer...