Word: funds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first active steps towards the use of the Morris Gray Fund for Modern Poetry were outlined yesterday afternoon by Professor Winship in the Art Room of the Widener Library, in an informal talk. The gift by Morris Gray '77 of $30,000, the income from which was to be used for the purchase of contemporary poetry, was announced last month, and Professor Winship's speech yesterday was the first intimation of what general plan would be followed...
Senator Couzens' establishment of a ten million dollar fund for the betterment of the children of Michigan is not just another philanthropic foundation. For the entire principle and interest is to be spent within twenty-five years and none of the money is to go for scholastic research or for individual aid. The endowment will be used where it will show almost immediate and tangible results. Where others perhaps think for the good of the future in terms of dollars and the study of pure science, the Michigan senator prefers to deal with the human element...
While the number of trust funds for charitable enterprise are not so numerous as to make the field closed to any newcomers, many people may feel that Senator Couzens' departure from the beaten path is timely. Much can be said about the advantages of a permanent fund for philanthropic purposes. But it is also possible that the seventeen and a half million dollars which the retired automobile manufacturer proposes to spend in the next quarter century will be more advantageous when used in a concentrated form than if strung out indefinitely and administered by future trustees...
...list there are a number of "press" books, exact replicas of world-famous editions. Except in a few cases where the contemporary cloth bindings are of such interest as to be worth preserving, all volumes are bound in calf or morocco. The seal and bookplate of the Hopkins Fund have been stamped in the cover of each book...
...time last year Maryland barred Sinclair horses "to keep the game clean." Nathan F. Leopold Jr., once of Chicago, from now on of Joliet, Ill., Penitentiary, co-murderer in 1924 of small Robert Franks, is to get all or part or none of the income from a trust fund of $50,000 left by his father for his "care, maintenance or benefit," as decided by his brothers, Foreman N. and Samuel N. Leopold, trustees. So it came out last week from the senior Leopold's will. The two trustee brothers get equal shares of $500,000. Soprano Mary Garden...