Word: funded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...history of the fund from which the deturs were purchased was given by Dean Briggs, and then the prizes were distributed. He next considered the Bowdoin prizes and in his remarks made this interesting statement: Prizes for English were given to the following men while they were in College: Edward Everett '11, Jared Sparks '15, George Bancroft '17, Ralph Waldo Emerson '21, Josiah Quincy '21, Benjamin Robbins Curtis '29, James Freeman Clarke '29, Charles Sumner '30, Francis Bowen '33, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar '35, Henry Whitney Bellows '32, Jones Very '36, Richard Henry Dana '37, Edward Everett Hale '39, Thomas Hill...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology will send to the Paris Exposition a collection of minerals containing four hundred specimens of phosphates and carbonates secured by Professor W. O. Crosby, by means of a fund of eight hundred dollars furnished by the Massachusetts Exposition Committee; and also a collection of marbles, granites, sandstones and slates representative of the building stones of the United States, secured by Mr. Wm. L. Fuller, of the Geological Department...
Question: "Resolved, That Admiral Dewey was justified in deeding the house, presented to him by the Dewey home fund, to his wife." Principal Disputants.--Affirmative: G. W. South, G. O. Suppis, and P. B. Olney.--Negative: A. J. Hammerslough, L. P. Hill and J. P. Hogan...
Question: "Resolved, That Admiral Dewey was justified in deeding the house, presented to him by the Dewey home fund, to his wife." Principal Disputants.--Affirmative: G. W. South, G. O. Suppis, and P. B. Olney.--Negative: A. J. Hammerslough, L. P. Hill and J. P. Hogan...
Mayor Josiah Quincy spoke last night in the Fogg Museum on "Boston Municipal Improvements." He said in part: $2,500,000 is appropriated annually for the education of children in Boston, and only $77,000 for their physical development. It is an open question whether the fund for education should not be lowered and the recreation fund increased. As a paying investment, it is advisable to consider whether a greater amount expended on public baths and recreation grounds will not result in a more than compensating decrease in the size of the appropriation necessary for hospitals and prisons. Thirteen permanent...