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...gift of $233,200 each to Harvard and Yale Universities as part of the $3,500,000 bequest of the Reverend Dr. Alexander G. Mercer of Newport, Rhods Island was provided by the final decree of Superior Court last week...
...bequest was split three ways, for college scholarships in public school graduates, for hospitals, and for the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which he was a minister...
...trusts are being contested on the grounds that the donor was not "sound of mind." University officials yesterday declined to comment until definite knowledge of the bequest was discovered; the Treasurer's office has apparently been unable to ascertain if the money was ever received...
...these reasons the Corporation should not have many quains about indulging in a little legal shenanigans to extricate the Council from its unhappy position. By shutting its eyes to the letter of the bequest, as it has unwittingly done for so many years, the Corporation can perpetuate the spirit of the Coolidge grant, and encourage the continued life and growth of debating. By insisting on the exact words of the will, the Corporation will only kill that which the bequest aimed to promote...
After a month of argument before Judge Michael L. Igoe, the jury received the case on Friday afternoon. Seven favored setting the will aside, depriving Northwestern University of the $70,000 bequest. Five opposed, among them Mrs. Katherine Merrifield, wife of Dr. Frederick W. Merrifield, professor at Northwestern. Saturday morning the arguing jurors asked for further instructions, were told that if they reached no verdict they would be locked up till Monday. Then the minority, including Mrs. Merrifield, gave up, signed the verdict, went home for the week...