Word: ackland
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...will, Bachelor Ackland had left over a million dollars, the bulk of his fortune, to Duke University for an art museum. If Duke refused it, the money was to go to the University of North Carolina. In third place was Rollins; but after his visit to Rollins, William Ackland was thinking of moving it up to first...
...Then Ackland was invited to Duke, had such a pleasant time that he knocked North Carolina and Rollins out of his will entirely. He bequeathed to Duke not only the art museum, but also his mortal remains to be buried in the museum apse. With these affairs settled, in 1940 he died...
...heavily to tennis and horseback riding, had abolished professorial lectures and final examinations, put little stress on student grades, went in for such campus curiosities as a tree-lined "Walk of Fame," paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world's great. Millionaire William Hayes Ackland, an amateur art fancier, was one of many pleased by such departures from tradition, especially since Rollins also showed a lively interest...
...fight this argument, Rollins hired former U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, and North Carolina hired ex-Governor Oliver Max Gardner. The Supreme Court turned down the Ackland family, left only Rollins and North Carolina in the running...
Last week the trustees were looking over Rollins; this month they will inspect Chapel Hill. It will then be up to a District of Columbia court to decide who will get generous William Ackland's bones and fortune...