Word: funds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proclamation of the Governor of virtually every State in the Union, the week commencing September 24 will be observed throughout the country as "Library War Fund Week," and will be especially devoted to raising a fund of $1,000,000 for the construction, equipment and maintenance of soldiers' public libraries in every cantonment and camp in the land. Library facilities also are to be provided from this fund for the sailors afloat and ashore, for the wounded and the sick, and even for men on the firing line...
Besides a Library War Council appointed by Secretary Baker, which has the raising of this fund in hand, the campaign in each State will be supervised by a state War Council, composed of leading men and women in all sections. Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank of New York, is chairman of the National Library Council...
...announcing their intention to issue a proclamation for "Library War Fund Week," all the Governors expressed hearty sympathy with the project and the object for which it is designed...
...Harvard Divinity School Alumni Association held their annual meeting at Divinity Hall yesterday morning. It was reported at the meeting that the Francis G. Peabody Fund now totals over $25,000, and that a goal of $200,000 has been set as the amount of the Fund when a chair in "social ethics and pastoral care" will be founded...
...vote polled yesterday by the Freshman class on the question of the advisability of investing a part of the surplus of the class fund in the Liberty Loan was unanimous in favor of the proposed plan, as far as it was possible to ascertain last night. The result of the balloting at the Wakefield range is not ket known, but there is little doubt but that the votes there will all fall in the same direction...