Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...these gifts as showing the interest that outsiders take in the college, and also the departments which received the greater shares of this thoughtful aid. What is perhaps the most important of all to notice is the way in which these funds are presented. The tendency to present money to the college for immediate use is rapidly increasing; and the total amount thus presented for the past year was some...
...ultimate object the realization of a true university settlement modeled after Toynbee Hall in London, or the Rivington Street settlement in New York. But in order to accomplish this result or to attain any permanent success it must have the hearty and enthusiastic support of the University. It needs money, and still more it needs men. Already the undertaking has grown too large to be carried on by those at present actively interested. The amount of time required of each worker is not large. If a number of men can give a single hour a week it will...
...Towne Scientific School for the purchase of implements or the erection of buildings or both, and, $200,000 is to be used to pay free scholarships in the university in any branch except theology, and besides, to furnish needy students with such money as they shall need to pursue their studies in the institution...
...amount given to each student is not to exceed $350 per annum, and for a time not to exceed five years. The student on his part agrees to refund this money if he may ever become able, and is to forfeit his scholarship if he indulges in tobacco or becomes intoxicated. The scholars thus assisted are to be selected without regard to faith or nationality. Such a bequest to a single institution has rarely been equaled...
...directions of President Seth Low of Columbia College, withdrawn the American claims to the right to carry on the excavations at Delphi. Under the terms of a treaty but lately negotiated, the French have revived their claims to the right of making these excavations. The Archaeological Institute raised money for the purchase of the village of Castri and for carrying on the excavations, under the impression that the French, by their rejection of a former treaty, had given up all intention of making the excavations themselves. But the revival of the French claims forces the Americans out of the field...