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...terms under which it is to be Administered by the President and Fellows of the University are set forth in the will as follows: "I give, devise, and bequeath into the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in memory of my beloved wife, Elizabeth Worcester Mills, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars to be known as the "Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund", the income from such fund to be devoted to the investigation of the origin and cure of cancer. In the event that thereafter the opinion of the President and Fellows of said College such investigation shall have been...
Sixteenth - I give and bequeath to the College of New Jersey, of which the Rev. James McCosh, D. D., is president, all my books and works relating to natural history and all the minerals, shells and other specimens illustrative of natural history which may remain after the bequest contained in the next preceding article hereof, to the American Museum of Natural History, shall have been satisfied, in conformity with the terms and conditions thereof...
...give and bequeath to the College of New Jersey, located at Princeton, in the State of New Jersey, to which I have already given largely during my lifetime...
...supposed that the executors had always intended to resign their claim to the property. As there is a state law forbidding a man with a family to bequeath more than half of his property to institutions, and as the will provided that $2,100,000 should be given to colleges, etc., Mr. Fayerweather probably entrusted the residuary legacy of some $1,500,000 to the executors with the secret understanding that they should in turn give it to the colleges...
...also give and bequeath to the said corporation the marble bust of my said husband made by the late H. K. Browne, sculptor, to be kept in a suitable hall or room in the said Art Museum...