Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of the manufacturers and their Tariff talk scornfully about Government-nurtured Prosperity. A howl of protest went up in Washington against Senator Reed's suggestion. Charles Collins Teague, the Farm Board's vice chairman, declared that $289,050,019 of the Board's $500,000,000 revolving fund was out on amply secured loans to co-operatives and "a large part, if not all, the money loaned will be returned to the Treasury." Oregon's Senator McNary, declaring Senator Reed's proposal "absurd," harked back to the Board's fundamental purpose...
...Graduate" suggests that the University declare a building holiday and, for five or ten years, devote all gifts to increases in scholarships or the lowering of fixed charges. He envisions the possibility of a ten million dollar fund whereby every year a thousand men who would otherwise enter another college would be enabled to come to Harvard on a complete equality with all. Such a fund is perhaps a Utopian dream. The proposal to employ such money as the University may acquire for an increase in scholarships and a lowering of charges, however, will have the solid support of undergraduates...
Harvard University was yesterday made recipient of a $50,000 trust fund by the will of Mrs. Mary I. Brackett, widow of Dr. Charles A. Brackett, who graduated from the Dental School in 1873. The fund comes to the University under the terms of the will of Dr. Brackett, professor of Dental Surgery, Emeritus, at Harvard...
...This new fund will probably be used in connection with the Dental School, as the former dental professor, although retired, always maintained a keen interest in its affairs. Other bequests amounting to over $50,000 were made to various charitable institutions...
Also, "Harvard requires and gets probably the highest standard of work of any large university in the country." Thus runs a folder, headed "Why Is Harvard Our Greatest University?" which accompanies a request that certain graduates dig for the Harvard fund. Who could help digging after being thus reminded of the glory which is Cambridge...