Word: bequest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University has recently received the sum of $25,000, the bequest of Mrs. Margaret E. Langdell, of Cambridge. The money will be used to found in the Law School two scholarships which will be known as "The Langdell Scholarships...
...Draper M. '69, of Brookline, former medical examiner of Suffolk county. The entire estate is left in trust and the income is to be paid to his widow during her life, and after her death it is to be divided equally between her two sons. The bequest, which is believed to be about $100,000, is made without restriction...
...versatility, and the great fund of information of the late Dean Shaler, under whom the Lawrence Scientific School attained great importance. Dean Shaler was a poet and a philosopher, as well as a scientist and an engineer. It was chiefly he who influenced Gordon McKay to make his great bequest to Harvard...
...University has received from the estate of the late George Francis Parkman '44, his bequest of $50,000. One half of this sum is to constitute a fund, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books for the College Library, the other half for general educational purposes...
...with ever-increasing force, and has led to the birth of the Graduate School of Applied Science. Following the example set by the Faculties of Law and Medicine, the founders of the new institution aimed to place it in the front rank. An opportunity was provided when the McKay bequest became available last January, and the first step towards the desired expansion was made with the appointment of Professors Swain and Clifford from the Institute of Technology. Professor Swain, whose reputation as an engineer is national, will deliver in the Union this evening the fourth in the series of lectures...