Word: funds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plea of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, New York, for an increase of $30,000,000 in the endowment fund of that institution so that it may proceed at once with important undertakings, illustrates, among other things, the marvellous advance that has taken place in the conception of the mission and scope of higher education since the days of John Harvard and Eli Yale. The college founder or president who used to think in terms of thousands is now thinking in terms of millions and tens of millions. Christian Science Monitor...
...money will be added, to the fund for the support of the Harvard Surgical Unit which are supplied in large part by friends and graduates of the University. The fourth contingent of the Unit, under the direction of Herbert H. White '93, will leave for Europe on Saturday. The number of surgeons, doctors and dentists already supplied by the University for this work is more than 100, and the size of the hospital has increased...
...Today the three dormitories will be canvassed by candidates for the Freshman football managership to raise an entertainment fund. It is hoped that 1920 will respond with a general feeling of hospitality towards a team that is coming all the way from Cleveland, Ohio, to play its first game in the East...
...income of the Price Greenleaf fund is distributed in sums from $100 to $250 a year, to undergraduates in the first year of their residence and to deserving students who have not succeeded in the competition for scholarships...
...been raised to $175, announcement was made of an increase of $400 per year in the salary of each full professor. The minimum salary at present is $3,000 and the maximum $3,650. One of the objects in the raising of the $1,000,000 endowment fund in 1912 was to advance professors salaries, and the new figures represent the result of an investigation of the situation which has been underway by a special committee for about two years...