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...alumna of a Radcliffe graduate program, Collins had supported Radcliffe for decades. But upon hearing the news of the merger, Collins decided to leave the new Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study with a special bequest: $1.5 million...
Your other bequest may be more useful still--to journalists and everyone else. No life ends on a period, no matter how long it is lived. But your abbreviated life makes one especially aware of how much there is to the unknowable and untidy. In their private hours, your parents will imagine you as a wife, a mother, an actress in the movies or at the village playhouse. For myself, I see you married--as my own daughter was married a year ago--in a church ceremony the antipode of the one you were the center of last week...
Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) cleared another major hurdle in its effort to claim a $1.3 million bequest from the estate of Margret E. Rey Wednesday evening when its board of trustees unanimously agreed to amend Rey's will...
...stipulate how PBHA was to use the funds. While the organization has had financial trouble in the past, MacDonald said Rey's bequest would probably be used to fund PBHA's summer camps, in accordance with Rey's interests...
...bequest comes a year and three days after Chinese President Jiang Zemin visited Harvard. During his visit he announced the donation of Twenty-Four Histories, a classic work on Chinese history that was newly-published with comments by Mao Zedong, to the library...