Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terms of the Chair, endowed by a fund of $100,000, state that "the incumbent is appointed as a full professor for a term of one year" and that he be "chosen without limits of nationality from men of high distinction and preferably, of international reputation...
...meeting; and Leverett, since it had contracts to fulfill on the dance, decided to go ahead even at this late date. This involved the loss of valuable time in the preparation of the dance, confusion in the minds of the undergraduates, and a probable loss to the Leverett House fund...
Cleveland. Reform Republican Mayor Harold Hitz Burton was embarrassed when his Democratic opponent, Engineer John O. McWilliams, accused him of collecting a "slush fund" to swing votes in tough wards. The Board of Elections, investigating, found that Mayor Burton had spent $12,860 more than he had reported, bringing his total to $41,212. Cried Engineer McWilliams, who reported an expenditure of $4,700: "The Mayor is carriying deception and falsification even into his campaign." Mayor Burton's campaign treasurer explained that he had borrowed and supplied the $12,860 personally. Betting odds continued to favor Mayor Burton...
...announcement of a $200,000 athletic endowment fund by President Conant of Harvard has set a precedent that will reverberate on the intercollegiate horizon for some time to come. Designed to free Varsity and intra-mural sports forever from the somewhat hazardous support rendered by the box-office sports the latest addition to the Cambridge institution's bulwark against the taint of professionalism has set her on a pinnacle of amateurism reached by only a few hinterland teachers' colleges...
...association, headed by grey-haired President Edward H. Powell of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., and endowed a few years ago by midwest business bluebloods, gave its support to the School of Industrial Design at the Chicago Art Institute until last year it decided to use its $262,000 fund to establish a more ambitious school...