Word: wadsworth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...preacher conducting prayers will be at Wadsworth House 1 every morning from 9 till 11 o'clock...
...Ellery Sedgwick, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Owen Wister, the novelist; W. Cameron Forbes, ex-Governor of the Philippines; Joseph Lee of Boston, President of the War Camp Community Service; J. P. Morgan; Judge Julian Mack of Chicago; William Thomas of San Francisco; and Thomas W. Lamont and Eliot Wadsworth, who are now acting as joint chairmen of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee, which is to raise fifteen million dollars for the University...
...list of speakers, which is not yet finally completed includes President A. Lawrence Lowell, Dean LeBaron R. Briggs, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, greater Boston chairman, and Eliot Wadsworth '98, who with Thomas W. Lamont '92, is joint chairman of the national committee of the Endowment Fund campaign...
...statement given out yesterday by Eliot Wadsworth '98, executive chairman of the University Endowment Fund, the specific needs of the various departments in regard to increased salaries and other expenses are described. The reasons for the raising of the goal from $10,000,000 to $15,250,000 are set forth in Mr. Wadsworth's announcement. Not only a 50 per cent. increase of salary of the reglar teaching staff will be necessary, but funds for physical education, the dental school, chemical development and other numerous purposes...
...original mark which we set," said Mr. Wadsworth, "was $10,000,000; this amount was the estimate of the Harvard Endowment Fund Committee which was appointed in 1916. This seemed large at the time and was based upon the needs of the institution at the time for increased equipment and higher remuneration for the teaching staff. America entered the war, however, within a short time and the plans were dropped until last spring. When the Committee began work again, the first step was a full study of the University. This investigation was made by members of the Committee and graduates...