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Dates: during 1930-1939
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APRIL 11 --Conant proposes endowment fund for all Harvard teams...
...grand total of $63,000 from 6,863 alumni has been received thus far in 1935 it was revealed in the tenth annual meeting of the Harvard Fund Council held yesterday in Wadsworth House. The total amount raised since the establishment of the fund ten years ago has now reached $1,215,994 contributed by 16,456 alumni...
...they raised a substantial amount to rescue Sweitzer." Forty thousand dollars was actually subscribed to bring the county's daily cash drawer up to par just before Clerk Sweitzer left office. But a real explosion took place when Sweitzer's successor asked for an audit of county funds. Biggest and most immediate deficiency was found in the fund into which delinquent taxes are paid. In the 24 years which Bob Sweitzer had been custodian of the fund, the audit showed at least $350,000 had vanished. Also raised when the County Board called Bob Sweitzer to account fortnight...
...Muskegon, the late Charles Henry Hackley who left $150,000 in 1905 for it. A lumber tycoon who at one time used to strip 30,000,000 feet of timber a year from Michigan woods, he dearly loved Muskegon, also gave the town a public library, an endowment fund, a manual training school, a hospital, a public park dotted with statuary. The Hackley Gallery has only recently begun to develop. Besides the Curry Tornado, it owns a Whistler, a Hogarth, a Blakelock, many good prints...
Pareto was born in Paris in 1848 of a long line of Italian republicans and conspirators, worked as a railway and mining engineer for 20 years before becoming an unsuccessful politician and a successful professor. He had built up a reputation as an economist, married unhappily, accumulated a tremendous fund of information on history, literature, the natural sciences, before he was offered the chair of political economy at Lausanne in 1894. The untrained U. S. reader who opens The Mind and Society finds himself in a thicket of abstract statements and scholarly quotations, quickly discovers that Pareto's first...