Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...theatre is once considered on the same level with the university as an institution which aims to develop the more perfect man, the solution of the problem is not so difficult. Mr. MacKaye suggested that the present universities act as trustees to receive private endowments for a new type of theatre. Immediately with the guarantee of such a respected institution, the endowment of a theatre would cease to be precarious. In addition he suggested that the public endow state and city theatres for the public good, to be administered like state universities and city colleges. Thus he believes that...
...will of the late Mrs. Grace M. Kuhn, who died at Lenox, Mass., on October 7, the sum of $175,000 has been bequeathed to the University to endow a new Department of Biological Chemistry. The endowment is made in memory of Mrs. Kuhn's son, who was interested in this particular branch of science, and will be known as the Hamilton Kuhn Professorship...
...University is to receive from the estate of the late Francis Porter Fisher, A.B. 1848, a bequest of $5,000 "to endow a scholarship to be named 'the George Fisher and Elizabeth Huntington Fisher Scholarship,' the interest of which shall go to help worthy and needy students of said College, preference being given to any collateral heirs of this testator, in such manner as the College trustees may prescribe, it being made to appear that this endowment is a memorial to both my father and my mother, . . . and that it is the joint gift of myself and my twin brother...
...turned in to Dr. Grenfell's treasurer, and was by him placed at interest at two per cent. On Sept. 6, 1907, the interest on this first subscription amounted to $29.37, making the total value of the first subscription, $670.37. A second subscription, looking toward the completion of the endowment of the bed, was taken during the past spring. During the spring and early summer a total of $336.50 was collected. Very shortly after this had been turned in, a generous subscription was received from an undergraduate, of $550. This made the total amount subscribed, with interest on the first...
DEAR SIRS:--It is my wish to endow the Professorship of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, the Professorship to bear the name of "Walter Augustus Lecompte," this sum to be kept as a separate fund under the name given, and any surplus of income not needed to pay the salary of the incumbent to be devoted to defraying the expenses of the Department of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College. Yours truly, FRANCIS D. LECOMITE...