Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, W. E. Harmon gave $50,000 to endow a cinema company?the Religious Motion Picture Co., which will produce films to be used as religious propaganda. No scenario, studio, actors or plan of action has yet been chosen. These things will come in time," said Mr. Harmon. "We have the money. That is the important thing...
...King Edward College of Medicine at Singapore, $350,000 to endow chairs of Bacteriology and Chemistry was last week's gift of the Rockefeller Foundation...
Surely this is not asking too much of a University which has always been known as the cultural leader of the country. It is a cause backed by a host of Harvard graduates, who have many times before offered to endow such a school. A word from the University is sufficient to set in motion a drive which would very quickly give us a fine experimental theatre where student actors should interpret the plays by student authors, an experimental theatre which would be a glorious testimony to the breadth of vision of Harvard University...
...depended on individual charity and on subscriptions from the patients: this is, as we see, unsuitable. We could, in the organize a committee to raise the money needed; this also is uncertain some year, one may foget attend to it. The best way, to my mind, is to endow the infirmary with a fund yielding an interest of fifteen or twenty dollars, which is an adequate sum to provide for wreaths, a tree, a few trimmings, and perhaps a few flowers...
...Williamsburg, Va., the Virginia Lodge of the Sons of Italy last week donated $1,000 to the College of William and Mary. The College is building a new men's dormitory, Monroe Hall; and the Lodge indicated that its money was to endow a memorial room in this hall in honor of one Charles Bellini. And who, pray, was Charles Bellini...