Word: funding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fund, known as the John Harvey Gregory Trust, is established in honor of Mr. Pugsley's father, the Honorable Cornelius Amory Pugsley, and in memory of his mother, Emma Catherine Gregory Pugsley. The scholarships, for which several applications have already been received, will be awarded on recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of each country, or, in case of the British Dominion, of the Minister of External Affairs. Applications should be addressed in the first instance to such Minister in each country, according...
Four Harvard alumni have been appointed to fill vacancies on the Harvard Fund Council, governing board of the Fund. They are F. M. Alger '99 of Detroit, Michigan; Dr. E. G. Stillman '08 of New York City; P. C. Cabot '21 of Boston; and Lawrence Coolidge '27 of Boston. Thus far in 1929 the Fund has received contributions from 5,698 alumni; it is closing its fourth year of operation...
Seven Oxford and Cambridge men are studying in the various graduate schools of Harvard, it was learned yesterday, under fellowships awarded annually by the Commonwealth Fund...
Things Done. In 1925 Daniel Guggenheim gave New York University $500,000 to create a school of aeronautics. Then he gave $2,500,000 to start the Fund, making his son president. Anyone with an intelligent idea about flying has had opportunity to put his thought before the younger Guggenheim. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Leland Stanford University, California Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, the University of Washington received between them almost $1,200,000 for schools of aeronautics. The Fund helped publicize the Lindbergh, Chamberlin and Byrd flights to Europe, gave U. S. aviation the impetus it needed...
...Fund financed Lindbergh and Byrd in their undertakings. Fund money supported a weather service on the Pacific Coast, which the U. S. Government now runs. More money went to help the Royal Aeronautical Society (England), Aero-Club de France, Associazone Italiana d'Aerotecnica, Aero Club von Deutschland to collect and disseminate important technical information which otherwise would not be published. Syracuse University got $30,000 to develop aerial photographic surveying and mapping. For a flying laboratory in which to try out instruments which would permit flyers to go through fog and darkness went several thousand dollars; for prizes...