Word: bequest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Yale University has recently received a bequest of $250,000, left by Mr. W. R. Ross for the erection of a new library. A library committee has been appointed, and general plans for the new building, are being carefully considered. Construction of the building will probably begin next summer and should be completed in about a year...
...will of the late W. R. Ross '56 provides a bequest of $250,000 to the university to be used in enlarging the present library building...
...will of the late Mrs. Sarah E. Kempton Potter, which was filed for probate on Wednesday, contains a bequest of $50,000 to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, to be applied to the work of the Gray Herbarium...
...will of the late Francis Boott '31, which was filed for probate yesterday, the University will receive a bequest of $10,000. This money is given in trust, the income to be be distributed in annual prizes of $100 each for the best composition of concerted vocal music by any undergraduates or members of the graduate school...
...Ingersoll Lecture for the current year will be given some time in May by Professor William Osler, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University, whose subject will be "Science and Immortality." This is the sixth lecture provided since 1893, when the bequest was made. The last lecture was that given by the late Dr. John Fiske in 1900 on the subject of "Life Everlasting." The bequest provides that the lectures shall be on the general subject of the "Immortality of Man," and that each lecture shall be published after it has been delivered...