Word: fund
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boat-House Fund, borrowed by Captain Goodwin...
Seniors are also reminded that the first instalment of the Class Fund, and the assessment of one dollar for the Class Cradle, are due on or before Commencement, and the Secretary desires that they may be promptly paid...
...Bradford called on Mr. R. W. Curtis for the first toast of the evening, "Our Alma Mater." Mr. Jaques then responded to "The Institute of 1770," in a few earnest words, expressing the wishes so generally entertained for the future welfare of the Society. Mr. Andrews developed a vast fund of biblical knowledge in his response to "The Class of 1876." Mr. Swift, '77, indulged in an allusion to the tender affection existing between the classes of '76 and '77, in his response in behalf of the latter class. Mr. Brown, '77, then replied for the Freshman Ten. Mr. Weld...
...proposition in regard to the window undoubtedly rose in part from a desire for some expression of the respect of the Senior Class for its Alma Mater; but this can be done fully as well in some less ostentatious way, by a fund given to the Library for purchasing books when they first come out, or by any other permanent help to some department of the University...
...they more honored in building a grand but useless pile, than in making their monument of some real benefit to the College? It were better to build a handsome granite shaft to their memory, and then expend the rest in founding scholarships, than to sink the whole fund in a useless Babel of bricks and mortar. This monument of Harvard's alumni is no more profaned by the daily presence of her students than by the crowd of curious strangers that will throng it at Commencement. If every student, on leaving College, remembers the Memorial Hall as the place where...