Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faculty for the purpose of alleviating the condition of the unemployed. In short, it does not conform to Mr. Robart's idea of a university committee, and faculty members of Harvard would do well to further destroy Mr. Robart's rather mistaken conception by contributing to the neighborhood relief fund...
...which was established two years ago in memory of Professor Woodberry, is a particularly glaring example of an expenditure of money with no valid reason. It was set apart on the third floor of Widener, comfortably furnished, enriched with volumes from Any Lowell's library, and endowed with a fund to buy current books of poetry and pay for occasional lectures. From time to time exhibits of valuable books and manuscripts have been arranged. An always, in a steady stream, little books of verse, neatly bound in the appropriate colors, have trickled in to take their places on the shelves...
...that a trip to the third floor of Widener is quite worth the effort involved. Antagonism to this idea receives a crowning justification from the low level of taste revealed in the selection of the books which go into the collection. The liberality of Morris Gray in providing a fund for the purchase of modern poetry apparently was so great that almost anything is liable to turn up on the shelves provided that it was printed yesterday rime and meter...
...Foundation has a $100, 000 fund to send 100 boys & girls to college. Highly publicized have been its standing offers of $250,000 for a cancer cure, $25,000 for an influenza cure...
...less poor Northern city Negroes. Northern Negroes show more tuberculosis than Southern Negroes. The Association is attacking Northern conditions first-upon advice of its special investigator Dr. Cameron St. Clair Guild (pronounced Gould), a Nova Scotian who has become expert on Southern U. S. public health deficiencies. The Rosenwald Fund, builder of schools for rural Negroes, is paying for tuberculosis control among the Race. One able Negro, Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of Fisk University, belongs to the committee of prevention...