Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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As a result of recent purchases the Fogg Museum has now on exhibition three new valuable works of art. These are, the Jacobsen collection, consisting of one hundred and four photographs of ancient sculpture in the Museum of Copenhagen: a set of engravings for the Gray Collection, comprising eight etchings...
The growth of scholarships at Harvard has extended over a period of more than two hundred and fifty years. There are now two hundred and thirteen scholarships having stipends which are available for students under the charge of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. This number does not include the...
The first scholarship ever bequested to Harvard was founded in 1643, by Lady Ann Mowlson, of London, by gift of a hundred pounds, "to be and to remain a perpetual stipend for the maintenance of some poor scholar until such time as such scholar doth attain the degree of a...
From 1643 to 1800 the College received about forty bequests for the aid of poor and deserving scholars, having an income of from $50 to $300 each. Up to this time the accounts of the College had been kept in a single entry and annual assignments were made of the...
The number of scholarship funds founded after 1850 is as follows: Between 1850 and 1860, 6; from 1860-1870,10; from 1870-1880, 17; from 1880-1890, 15; from 1890-1900, 25.