Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requirements of the budget for the year 1912-13 were met, and there remained in the treasury a surplus of $474.40. This year the Cabinet voted to donate the surplus of $474.40 and $25.60 in addition, making a sum total of $500.00--as the gift from the undergraduate fund to the permanent endowment...
...largest items were as follows: $50,000 to be added to the Matchett Fund. This fund was created by the will of Sarah A. Matchett, in 1913, with an original gift of $150,000--a special fund to be used for the general purposes of the college. The $50,000 which has now been added brings this fund...
...secured for practically all graduates, though the school does not promise this. Every graduate is practically assured a fair chance to prove his fitness for executive work, and to be put ahead if he 'makes good.' The professorship of banking and finance has been made permanent by the gift of endowment from a business man, Mr. Edmund C. Converse, of New York. The Harvard Corporation, as well as the business supporters of the school, consider that it has passed from experiment to assured success...
...faculty; and there is a plant valued at $100,000, soon to be enlarged by a modern hospital. The immediate plans and needs are many. Thirty thousand dollars is required to purchase the site for a new hospital, the building itself being paid for by an anonymous gift of $50,000. A further sum is needed for the establishment of an out-patient clinic for the Chinese in a thickly settled quarter. It is also planned to add two more instructors and three nurses...
Although a large sum was raised by the five classes, the portrait is in part a gift from Mr. Tarbell who, in token of esteem for Dean Briggs and from his respect for the University, generously consented to do the work for the sum raised. Mr. Tarbell is one of the foremost portrait painters of the country, belonging to the famous group called "The Ten American Painters." His pictures have been honored at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and at the Chicago World's Fair...