Word: loan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...means of meeting them. Perhaps to get the advantages of Harvard, a student may need to spend largely but a certain circumstance enables him to do so,- I mean the matchless benevolence of those who have preceded us here. The great sums interested to us for distribution in prizes, loan funds and scholarships make it possible for our students to offset the cost of their education to such a degree that the not output of a poor boy is probably less than in most New England colleges. At any rate, I have asked a large number of poor students...
...expenses for the past four years have been as follows: freshman, $550; sophomore, $650; junior, $625; senior, $750. This represents the actual amounts which have come into my hands. I received from the college one year a scholarship of $150 and $50 from the loan fund; another year, $350 scholarship and $75 loan fund; another still, $300 scholarship and $50 loan fund; from tuition, $250. The nest I obtained from extraneous sources...
...amount to distribute, there will undoubtedly be a sudden increase in the number of poor students desirous of making Harvard the scene of their labors. As previously stated, the aggregate income of the various college professorship funds is about $80,000. Counting the income from all the scholarships, the loan funds and the beneficiary funds, the college as trustee is able to give to poor students over $300,000 a year. From this it would appear that the benefactors of Harvard consider that it is quite as important to encourage needy freshmen as to give the members of the faculty...
...assignments of the loan funds are now payable at the Bursar's office...
Last day of receiving applications for aid from the Loan Fund...