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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University has received a gift of $5,500 to establish the Robert Darrah Jenks Scholarship in memory of the graduate of that name of the Class of 1897. For the duration of the war the income is to be applied for such war measures as the University may desire. After the war the income is to be used to support a scholarship in Railroad...
...University has received a gift to establish the "William Henry Meeker '17 Scholarship," to be awarded "for excellence in some of the English courses." Announcement of the reception of this gift was made yesterday afternoon by the University authorities...
During the year of 1917, the University has received by gift $2,271,900, according to a report recently published. This sum was in addition to the annual payment from the trustees under the will of Gordon McKay, but included the amount of $432,900, which was a part of the Endowment Fund of $10.000,000 to be raised for the University by the Alumni. This Endowment Fund campaign was postponed last spring and will not be resumed until after the close...
...single gifts of $50,000 or more which were received during the past year are listed below: Anonymous gift for the general use of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, subject to life estates, $200,000.00 Anonymous gift (precise purposes not yet specified). 387,942.00 Gift of Mrs. William H. Bliss for scholarships and instruction in Forestry, 50,000.00 Estate of Peter Paul Francis Degrand: French works and periodicals in the exact sciences, 75,000.00 Dr. Henry I. Dorr (subject...
...doubted that those who have pledged will eventually make good their promise. Yet at present the undergraduate body might well be accused of having "a morbid propensity to sloth and procrastination." The collection of these pledges is ordinarily no easy work since they are so widely scattered. This gift of the University was not from a few, but from the whole body of students. Let us expedite this work by turning in our money at Phillips Brooks House before some outside cynic again breaks forth in a sinister analysis of Harvard indifference...