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Following on the heels of the announcement that the University had received the Nieman bequest "in part" came the statement yesterday that $764,114 was the actual amount received...
Harvard has received "in part" the long-awaited Nieman bequest, it was revealed yesterday by Henry L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the Corporation. The bequest, left to the University last year by the late Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman, of Wisconsin, was once estimated at $5,000,000, but taxes have cut it down to nearer the $2,000,000 mark...
...question of how the University would use the money, Shattuck announced that he expected no definite action until the final amount is announced. The bequest was originally left to further the interests of journalism, but it is expected that the money will be used here either for additional current history courses or for new courses in English composition...
Director of the Museum since 1927 has been Blake-More Godwin, a tweedy executive who came to Toledo as curator in 1916 and personally designed the Museum's Gothic Hall. Greying Mr. Godwin has been able to adhere with exemplary firmness to a policy of never accepting a bequest with any strings attached to it, never accepting any more of a private collection than he wants, and buying "only the best of its kind whether we like it personally or not." By this standard Founder Libbey began and Mr. Godwin has continued to amass one of the best- balanced...
Scali. To his widow, Inventor Marconi willed the interest on his daughter's bequest during her lifetime. To his son and two daughters by his first wife, Irish Beatrice Donough who divorced him in 1024, he left the minimum permitted by Italian law; to his first wife, associates and Fascist charities, nothing. Left-By Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, late wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, an estate of approximately $500.000; to her husband...