Word: bequest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, the interest from Benjamin Wadsworth's 1737 bequest of "110 pounds for some poor scholar (tho' to no dunce or a rake)" now applies to general scholarships, without its dunce stipulation...
Yale, Princeton and the University of Chicago are currently considering Holocaust studies professorships, according to Martin H. Peretz, a lecturer in social studies. While no particular scholar may have been available at the time of the bequest, that is no reason for the University to convince the donor to reallocate the money...
...million gift and bequest to Harvard Law School (HLS) will bolster the law school's study of business and cyberspace law, officials announced yesterday...
...Maggie Pisacane '98, a co-chair of the event, said that although the amount of money raised has not yet been tabulated, organizers were pleased with the event's success. A $60,000 bequest coupled with the proceeds from ticket sales, sponsorship, donations, advertising, silent auction and merchandise could result in a record-breaking year...
...time, the bequest was valued at 800 pounds by Mass. Gov. John Winthrop, according to University archives. How many cows that bought you, I am not sure. But consulting the British Consumer Price Index (a measure of the nation's inflation) from 1650 to 1990, we find that the gift is comparable to 200,000 pounds, or about $360,000. That...