Word: funds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Gifts amounting to $155,510 were accepted, the largest being $111,370 from the estate of Gordon McKay. Another important gift was from the estate of Samuel C. Cobb, $30,000, on account of one-fifth part of the residuum of his estate "to be kept as a fund, but not requiring it to be invested as a special fund, of which the income only shall be used and applied towards the payment of the college dues of students in that university during their freshman and sophomore years, in such manner and for such deserving students as the faculty shall...
...canvass of undergraduates for contribution to the Swimming Pool Fund 1918 has not yet been asked to shoulder its part of the burden. Since the time before the close of college was not sufficient to make possible a complete canvass of this class, the members of which are remotely situated in Cambridge, the 1918 committee decided to postpone its collection...
Present returns indicate that 1919, which is now contributing, may equal the precedent set by four previous classes, which gave the Gymnasium Fund...
...entire proceeds will be given to the Allied Bazaar in New York, which is raising a million-dollar fund for war relief. Besides naming a planet for a college, a vote is being taken to determine the name of what city another of Professor Metcalfe's planets will bear, while shares are being sold for the privilege of naming a third asteroid according to the wishes of the winner...
Robert Shaw Sturgis '16, of Winnetka, III., has been appointed acting treasurer of the Senior class during the absence of the permanent treasurer, Henry Ludwig Flood Kreger '16, at Red Top. The final installment of the Class Fund is now due, and should be mailed to Sturgis at Thayer...