Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left to Harvard yesterday by the will of Mrs. Freida Adler to provide a prize for medical research work in the United States and Canada. The Harvard endowment, will be a permanent fund, the trustees being instructed to invest the money and award the accumulated income every three years to the contribution of the best piece of research work in medical or allied sciences in the United States and Canada...
...contribution to the University did not lie in extended research, for he had more liking for the human task of teaching than for the type of work which brings academic distinction. He brought to his classes a genuine interest in the literature which they were studying and his fund of anecdote and unaffected philosophizing were always a pleasure to his students...
Fair wages are paid, with workers contributing 5% monthly to an investment fund. Salaried officials likewise have a monthly sum deducted, Dr. Voliva fixing the percentage yearly. When convenient, he gives employes his personal, nonnegotiable, eight-year notes...
...gifts from the Friends of the Library thus serve a very special and useful purpose. Merged as they are, large and smalls into one account, they form a mobile fund ready for any emergency. In general, it may be fairly claimed that very few of the many valuable works bought with these gifts in the last six years would be in the Library today without the help of the Friends...
...this same purpose. Let us hope that the Harvard President and Fellows, and those who have subscribed to the memorial, will agree upon a new or enlarged department of international relations or world peace, housed in a new and beautiful building, and endowed with that part of the memorial fund not needed for this building. Harold K. Estabrook...