Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horace V. Gregory will speak on Ralph Waldo Emerson and read some of his own poems in the sixth of the series of Morris Gray Poetry Fund lectures on Thursday afternoon at 4:30 O'clock in Sever...
...Fund of $5000 has been set aside for this purpose, and the winner of the competition will be given his tuition and complete living expenses for four years at any college that he chooses in the United States...
...giving his money to whomever he pleased. We question, however, the propriety of Yale University accepting a bequest on terms which have all the car marks and specifications of Nazi ideology. Harvard University had the courage to refuse a scholarship offered by a Nazi propagandist. Can Yale administer this fund on these terms without upholding an ideal which is counter to Yale's own "best ideals and traditions?" --The American Jewish World...
...money-getter as his canny predecessor, Abbott Lawrence Lowell. While pocketing with one hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec. 23), he dashed off with the other an appeal for Harvard's Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The Fund will be used partly for fat, new scholarships, partly to establish University Professorships. The "roving professors" may work where they choose, breaking down the artificial barriers between fields. Rich Harvardmen were invited to give $25,000 for a scholarship. Very rich Harvardmen were invited...
...Birth Plan." Its terms: to give every newborn child a $20,000 note payable by the U. S. in 20 years. The note would bear 3% interest ($50 monthly) payable to the child's parents. This $600 a year, plus $1,000 a year for a sinking fund, would cost the Government only $1,600 a year per pensioner compared to $2,400 under the Townsend Plan. If a boy and girl married at 20 they would have $40,000 capital to live on, so that they would never have to work. And as they procreated their income would...