Word: funds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Henry Fund was founded by the late Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States." The Fellowships are given to English students for study at American universities and to American students for study at English universities in alternate years. Each is valued at five hundred pounds sterling and is for one year of study at either Oxford or Cambridge...
Robert C. Hall '36 of Brookline, Sidney S. Alexander '36 of Forest City, Pa., and August C. Helmholz, 2d '36 of Rochester, Minn., are the three Harvard Seniors who have been chosen to receive the Charles and Julia Henry Fund Fellowships for study at Oxford and Cambridge Universities during the next academic year...
...announcement was made yesterday by the American Trustees of the Henry Fund, of which the Harvard representatives are President James B. Conant, Jerome D. Greene '96, and Dean A. C. Hanford...
...would not inform Hanfy merely by a letter asking for a gift. But the real point is that even if Hanfy did not realize the letter was a mistake, he was asked for one thing and he offered another. There is certainly material difference between support of the Tercentenary Fund and the prize scholarships, and an award which sends Harvard men to the birthplace of National Socialism under the wing of Hitler's piano player...
...which Hanfstaengel's original scholarship was offered had so much to do with its being refused, it is interesting to note that again he gave out the news of his offer even before it was received. More than two million dollars has now been given to the Tercentenary Fund, but none of the donors has thought it necessary to release the news to the press...