Word: establishment
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Gentlemen:--Enclosed please find draft for four thousand and seventy dollars and fifty cents ($4070.50), which is hereby given to your Board by a few of the friends of Robert Fields Simes, to establish a fund, the principal of which shall be held by your Board with all the powers contained in the deed of trust dated October 1, 1901, and the income of which shall be used by your Board for the purchase of recently published books for the library of the Harvard Union. It is understood that this fund may receive additions later...
...Roux said that the Anglo-Saxons, when judging manifestations of Latin genius, must as much hesitate to pronounce the word cynicism as the Latin peoples to pronounce the word hypocrisy, when they judge the scruples of their neighbors. It is the privilege of culture to replace these prejudices which establish a barrier between races, by an intellectual superiority enabling them to appreciate the variety of the manifestations of thought and feeling throughout the world...
...Bureau of University Travel is about to establish a travelling fellowship in Classical Archaeology and invites your co-operation in the selection of a suitable person. The conditions are as follows...
...largest gifts of the year were $200,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Robinson, an addition to their previous gift of $100,000, to establish in memory of their son, the Nelson Robinson, Jr., Endowment Fund in the department of Architecture; and $165,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Robinson for the erection of the Architecture Building, and the purchase of books, prints, casts...
...must be the hopes of Yale? To enrich, adorn, and make happier and more abundant the life of the nation and of every individual in it, to make the forces of nature contribute more and more to the welfare of man, to so purify and strengthen democracy as to establish it in all Christian countries, and to call the American people in ever clearer tones to that righteousness which alone can exalt a nation...