Word: bequest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...means of the McKay bequest that these plans can be carried out. By the first of December, it is expected that the accumulation on the estate will have reached $1,000,000, after which this sum will be turned over to the University by provision of the will "to be used in the promotion of applied science." Thereafter, eighty per cent. of the net income, over and above the annuities, on the estate which is valued at between $4,500,000 and $5,000,000 will be paid annually and eventually the estate itself will come to the University. Thus...
...College Library has received a very valuable and interesting early portrait of Chaucer, painted in oil on an oak panel, by bequest of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton. The inscription on its back states that this picture was presented to Benjamin Dyke in 1803, at which time it had been preserved in the family of its donor, Miss Frances Lambert, for more than three centuries. In recent years, it has been known as the Seddon portrait. It was bought, after Mr. Seddon's death, by Mr. Fairfax Murray, who later sold it to Mr. James Loeb. Mr. Loeb presented...
...team defeated Yale in the annual match, at Dwight Hall, New Haven, Friday night, by the score of 8 to 2, winning seven of the 10 games played, receiving a draw in two, and losing one. Medals will be presented to the members of the winning team from the bequest of A. C. White '02. This is the fifth successive year that Harvard has won from Yale...
...University is to receive from the estate of the late Francis Porter Fisher, A.B. 1848, a bequest of $5,000 "to endow a scholarship to be named 'the George Fisher and Elizabeth Huntington Fisher Scholarship,' the interest of which shall go to help worthy and needy students of said College, preference being given to any collateral heirs of this testator, in such manner as the College trustees may prescribe, it being made to appear that this endowment is a memorial to both my father and my mother, . . . and that it is the joint gift of myself and my twin brother...
President Eliot has been selected by the Faculty of Northwestern University to deliver the N. W. Harris course of six lectures at that University this spring, from April 9 to 14 inclusive. This course was founded a little over a year ago from a bequest of Mr. Norman W. Harris, one of the foremost bankers of Chicago, and a trustee of Northwestern University, with the purpose "to stimulate scientific research of the highest type and bring the results before the students and friends of Northwestern University, and, through them, to all the world." By scientific research, is meant "scholarly investigation...