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...plan to raise the twenty-fifth anniversary gift of the class of 1925 by means of an endowment insurance on much the same plan as last year was announced yesterday by the officers of the Senior class. The plan, which contemplates a goal of $150,000 as a minimum, is of the participating type and involves the purchase of policies of $250, $500, or $1000 by individual members from the Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford at a premium of about $10 a year...
...official home provided by the U. S. Like them, he must rent a suite in a hotel, a private house, anything he can get, and hang out a sign: "Embassy of the United States of America." Several years ago, J. P. Morgan public-spiritedly made the U. S. a gift of two adjoining houses in London for use as an Embassy. Before they could be used, it was necessary that extensive alterations be made. Congress, three years ago, appropriated $150,000 for remodeling them for Embassy purposes. It has not been done. Last week, Assistant Secretary of State Wilbur...
Simon Guggenheim, financier and onetime (1907-1913) U. S. Senator from Colorado, last week gave $3,000,000 to establish a scholarship fund. The money, which Mr. Guggenheim referred to as "a preliminary gift", will provide from 40 to 50 fellowships to "both men and women of proved ability", giving them facilities for research and graduate work "anywhere in the world where they can work most profitably. This plan is broader than the famed Foundation,* organized 21 years ago by Cecil Rhodes (TIME, DEC. 22). It recognizes no age limit,† no restriction of subjects for research, specifying only that...
...death removes him from the ranks of possible contestants in the June election. He died at the height of his career, holding the greatest office in the gift of the German people. The past has been difficult. The future is dubious: such a leader will be missed...
...science of seismology is still too young to make possible the forecasting of earthquakes, Professor Daly said. He pointed out that a great saving of human life might be made by experimentation in prediction of these disturbances. A gift of $2,000,000 would be adequate, he said, to establish statious all over New England for the study of this problem...