Word: funds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporters Architect Warren wrathfully snorted: "The greater share of the money Mr. Hoover sent consisted of the residue of the Belgian Relief Fund, which by the will of the donors already belonged to the Belgian people...
...Clark, '11, of Prides Crossing, who had been Acting General Secretary of the Association, was elected to the offices of General Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. Clark is also Treasurer of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and Executive Secretary of the Harvard Endowment Fund...
George Whitney, '07, of New York City, a partner in J. P. Morgan & Company, was elected chairman of the standing committee to nominate Overseers of Harvard College, Directors of the Alumni Association, and members of the Harvard Fund Council. Four members of this committee were named at the same time: E. C. Felton, '79, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, former president of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, Dr. E. H. Pool, '95, of New York City, surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, J. O. Proctor, Jr., '01, of Milton, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin...
...great contemporary problem of giving first class medical aid to the man who is neither a millonaire nor a pauper. Women doctors will have equal opportunity with men on the staff. Said Matthew Scott Sloan, president of the great New York Edison (electric) Co., and chairman of the fund raisers, cheeringly: "I believe that women have a distinct contribution to make to the health of a community and should be given every chance to make that contribution." Mr. Sloan, an electrical engineer, is closely affiliated with medicine. His championship of women doctors is based on experience- for years his family...
Yale of late years (her example, besides being typical, is most pertinent to the present discussion) has collected from her faithful sons an enormous endowment fund. Who were its most conspicuous donors? Were they prize scholars grown affluent as a result of the intellectual nutriment they derived from her, or merely run-of-the-mill graduates with an aptitude for trade? The latter undoubtedly. And what do they look for as a sign that their university is maintaining its prestige in the academic realm? A winning football eleven...