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President Lowell will speak at a commemorative service to be held at the Arnold Arboretum tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the memory of Charles Sprague Sargent '62, Arnold Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard from 1879 until his death, which occurred on March 22, and director of the Arnold Arboretum for 54 years...
...bequests of considerable value were recently willed to the University by Professor C. S. Sargent '62, Director of the Arnold Arboretum and C.W. Holtzer of Brookline, who died recently, according to an announcement made in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
Professor Sargent provided in his will that $20,000 be given to the President and Fellows of Harvard College and that the income be used to purchase books on botany and forestry for the Arnold Arboretum, of which Professor Sargent was the director for so many years...
...into two equal funds". One of these is to be used for the care and maintenance of the Arberetum; the income of the other fund is to be added to the principal for an additional 100 years, when the income of the whole amount will be available for the Arboretum...
...during the term of 100 years from the date of my decease, and at the expiration of said term, the principal sum, together with the accumulated interest, be divided into two equal funds". One of these funds is to be used for the care and maintenance of the Arboretum. The income from the second is to be added to the principal for another 100 years when the income is to be available for the Arboretum. It has been estimated that the funds will amount to something like...