Word: funds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...maximum which can be received in upper-class years is $200 greater than that which can be granted Freshmen, owing to the proportionally higher cost of living in the Houses. Twenty-four men in the Junior and Senior classes are now wholly or partially supported by the National Scholarship fund...
...drew plans for his building. For 15 years he said nothing to his colleagues about his plans. Then one day in 1928 he walked into the office of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, laid $5,000 in securities on his desk as the first payment toward a fund for erecting the building. Each year for the next four years he added...
Concluding that he could not accumulate the $500,000 his building would cost solely from textbooks. Professor Cubberley decided to increase his fund in the stockmarket. Truth is at times as strange as the cinema. He studied market trends, invested in carefully selected securities so wisely that in 1933 he was able to give President Wilbur securities then worth $367,000. Still short of his goal, Dr. Cubberley asked the University to hold his investments until earnings raised the total...
...expect to see the building started during his lifetime, but his investments were so sound that a year ago the fund went over $500,000 and ground for the building was broken...
This is the second time the prize has been divided, and the fourth time it has been voted, since it was established in 1935. Based on a fund of $300 set aside annually by the Council, the Ames Scholarship is, according to the Council's constitution, to be awarded to men who "have shown energy in helping themselves and who, as well, exhibit the sterling character and inspiring leadership that were qualities of Richard and Henry Ames...