Word: stipend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Henry Russel Shaw Fund a stipend of $1000 has been awarded to M. C. Stevens '27 for the purpose of "supplementing his formal education by the broadening and cultivating influences which come from acquantance with other countries...
...Simon Cuggenheim Memorial Foundation has a capital fund of $3,5000,000, the gift of Senator and Mrs. Guggenheim. The entire income totalling $143,000, is devoted to the award of Fellowships to scholars and artists who have demonstrated unusual capacity for productive scholarship or remarkable creative ability. The stipend is usually $2500 and offers, opportunity to carry on research and creative work abroad. For he 1927-28 grants 600 applications were received...
...Rhodes scholarships are open to unmarried American citizens who will be between 19 and 25 years of age on October 1, 1928, and who have completed at least two years of college work. They are tenable for a period of three years at Oxford and carry an annual stipend of 400 pounds sterling...
...Ferdinand of Rumania: "A pleasant Christmas gift to me this year, in the midst of my troubles with cancer, fire (TIME, Dec. 20) and disputes about succession to the throne, was Parliament's increase of my civil list, or yearly stipend from $140,000 to $200,000.*; My five-year-old grandson, Crown Prince Michel, had his allowance increased to $30,000. At the same time $175,000 was appropriated for restoration of the royal palace wing that was recently burned. Commentators said I would find my increased funds useful for doctor's bills and for certain expenses...
...years before an endowed professorship was established. In 1721, Thomas Hollis gave the foundation fund for the professorship of divinity which still bears his name. He endowed Harvard outright with a sum of money, the interest of which 40 pounds per year, was to be the "honorable stipend" of Professor of Divinity, "to read lectures in the Hall of the College unto the students; the said Professor to be nominated and appointed from time to time by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; and when choice is made of a fitting person, to be recommended...