Word: funds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. He, no chemist, was last week given a medal by the American Chemical Society for being "greatest lay patron of chemistry in the United States" (see p. 48). Chemistry Patron Garvan was also among those who have given a scholarship fund ($1,000 annually) to help the Johns Hopkins plan. The scholarships are to be established in every State. Other contributors so far include: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (Ohio), Bill Raskob Memorial Foundation (Delaware),* General Motors Corp. (Michigan), Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. (West Virginia). The Edison "Genius Hunt" consists in finding in each...
Last Saturday the Boston papers carried the announcement of a ten million dollar endowment fund to be created at Harvard, solely for the benefit of athletics. Although the authenticity of the announcement was subsequently denied by President Lowell, the idea of an athletic endowment leads one to speculate on the possibility of a coming change in the present status of college athletics...
...this end, the Corporation appointed an Executive Committee of which the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, S.T.D., was Chairman and Dean Wallace B. Donham, Executive Chairman. In order to promote the work of this Committee, the Corporation agreed to appropriate from its won funds $750,000 toward the needs of the Division of Chemistry $500,000 "for endowing research" and $250,000 "for a maintenance fund for the Chemical Laboratories...
...Corporation of Harvard University has no intention of acquiring of $10,000,000 fund for the support of athletics...
...ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going to fill a secret chest which may be locked at the bottom of the sea for all anyone knows about it. Like it or not the Corporation will sometime have to explain this hoarding of a growing fund, and wisdom should dictate that they do so before the chances for misinterpretation and ill-will become any more numerous than they are at present...