Word: funds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...asked for the modest sum of thirty million dollars. Already nearly two thirds of this amount has been promised and the remainder is practically assured. Other colleges and universities all over the country are asking for gifts to satisfy their respective needs. Now Harvard has appointed a Harvard Endowment Fund Committee to raise ten million dollars. There is little question that both the College proper and the Graduate Schools are in need of additional income. At present the laboratory facilities are far from ideal for best instructing the large classes in physics and chemistry. Enough has been written already about...
With a committee of fifteen prominent graduates representing all sections of the country the task of collecting this large fund ought not to be difficult. The plan of reaching every Harvard graduate of the last forty years will in itself lend great strength to the universal character of the appeal...
Atlanta University, an institution for the higher education of colored men and women in Atlanta, Ga., now celebrating its semi-centenial, has begun the raising of a half-million-dollar endowment fund. to this we gladly call our readers' attention in the earnest hope that some of them will contribute to this most worthy undertaking, even at a time when the need for help in Europe is so great. Why do we take this position? Because even in the south people are beginning to realize that if the colored people are to direct their footsteps towards efficiency, probity and useful...
...nine years he was active in the manufacturing and mercantile business. After that he was engaged in the banking business, later entering the J. P. Morgan firm. He is also a director of various corporations. Mr. Lamont is "the man behind" the movement for the $10,000,000 fund to be added to the vested interests of the University...
...inspiriting influence far beyond the walls of Harvard. Whatever he wrote himself bore all the graces of a distinguished literary artist. He leaves Harvard the poorer by a genial personality an unfailing sympathy for the student (too often obscured behind an exterior of mocking shyness), and a fund of knowledge which the college will be long in replacing. Boston Tcaucribt...