Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appropriations totalling $450 were also voted by the council for the support of local charitable institutions. Though $200 were voted to the 1936 Boston Community Fund, $100 to both the Foreign Students Commission and the Cambridge Boy Scouts? and $50 to the Cambridge Y. M. C. A.; the Council has been unable to lend its accustomed support to several Cambridge charities including the Family Welfare, the Salvation Army, and the Industrial Aid Society as student pledges to the council have not as yet been sufficiently fulfilled. The council budget demands $2500 be pledged and paid by students, yet less than...
...there still exists a belief that papers are graded in such unorthodox methods as the stairway system. Such a desire might even be attributed to a craving for knowledge, the interest of the eager scholar to know wherein he has erred, to profit by his mistakes and augment his fund of information even after examinations...
...event that a really Socialist Cabinet is ushered in, His Majesty gave a clue during the British Coal Strike which precipitated the British General Strike of 1927. At that time the Soviet Government, through the Third International, were pouring some $2,000,000 into British strikers' funds and Labor leaders in London were publicly exclaiming: "Thank God for Moscow!" With tension extreme, Edward of Wales created a national sensation by dispatching his personal check for $50 to the Somerset Miners Distress Fund with this letter signed by his Comptroller...
Among the purchases were: from the Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...
When sufficient gifts for scholarship purposes are made to the 300th Anniversary Fund, the plan will be placed upon a national basis, and the awards will be known as Harvard National Scholarships...