Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grant, which will be in effect for the next five years, provides for an outright bequest of $200,000, and beyond this a maximum of $100,000 to be matched by the Rockefeller Fund against whatever the committee receives through gifts, the government, or other sources...
...Despite depression conditions the trustees of Princeton last commencement announced a program of development calling for a considerable amount of new funds. It is encouraging to us to learn that Harvard has not hesitated to appraise her needs and place them before the public in these adverse times. The Anniversary Fund presents a program worthy of the great university which is soon to celebrate its 300th birthday. We wish every success...
...anniversary of the Genial Mother's birthday, she would be well pleased to see the children bring gifts back to the old home. In October the President and Fellows adopted a statement, made public this morning, of the plan and the purposes of the Three Hundredth Anniversary Fund. The general purposes of this fund "is to strengthen the intellectual and spiritual life of the university, first, by creation of a number of new professorships to be known as, University Professorships; and second, by the establishment of new Harvard National Scholarships...
They will yield from $200 to $1,200 a year, according to the winner's resources. Since none of the fund is to be dumped into buildings, probably ugly, but all used to hunt and develop brains, it is hoped that collections will be good and the growth of the fund gradual and continuous. There will be no ballyhoo and no drive. Graduates will be notified by letter. Non-graduates, more likely to be "well-heeled," may be interested in the new type of professors unless they have Tory hardening of the heart and believe there is overproduction of professors...
Thirty Freshmen who entered this fall with high academic records have been rewarded with scholarships totalling $10,000. These are given from the University Scholarship Fund. Those who received the awards...