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...fund is to be known as the "Emory Washburn Memorial Fund, endowed by a member of the Class of 1872." Only the income may be used, but there are no other restrictions as to use of the money by the Law School. Although it is not known how the bequest will be invested, it would seem to be a safe prediction that the income will amount to at least $20,000 a year and probably more...
...book fund "for the advancement of Polish Culture" was established by a bequest of Valentine P. Gawrychowski, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, Bishop of the Eastern Diocese of the Polish National Catholic Church...
Choicest assignment any serious-minded newsman can get is a Lucius W. Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Founded in 1937 by a $1,000,000 bequest from the late Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, the Fellowships: 1) are open only to newspapermen with jobs; 2) pay each holder an amount approximating his regular salary, plus free tuition; 3) require no academic credits or examinations. Each applicant must satisfy Harvard that he has a definite study plan that will make him more useful to his community, his paper and himself when he goes back to work...
...more tangible results from Widow Nieman's bequest to "elevate the standards of journalism . . ." can hardly be expected until the present Fellows get back to their typewriters. Meanwhile, they are having a fine time. Bachelor Fellow Herb Lyons of the Mobile Press Register lives in a domitory; all the rest have apartments or houses. Their wives complain that they are rarely home for dinner. Ebullient Ed Lahey, who already knows most of the Cambridge cops by name and won enough from his fellow Fellows in a poker game to buy a ton of coal, has begun to educate Boston...
...Lister and Pasteur were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...