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...Markoe Scholarship, founded in 1903, by Mrs. John Markoe, was awarded to Milton Elkin of Mattapan. The Charles Downer Scholarship, established in 1927 by the bequest of Charles Downer '89, was awarded to Robert William Raymond, of Albany, New York. The Warren H. Cudworth Scholarship, founded in 1884, by Mrs. C. M. Barnard, was awarded to Joseph Share, of Salem. The Stoughton Scholarship, founded in 1701, by Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton, of the Class of 1650, was awarded to William Jerome Callaghan, of Dorchester...
...Boardman Professorship of Fine Arts was established in 1924 at the bequest of Alice L. Boardman in memory of her brother, William Dorr Boardman...
...commonly dated from October 28, 1636, when the General Court of Massachusetts Bay "agreed to give 400 pounds toward a schoale or colledge." This college, the first in the English colonies, was opened in the summer of 1638, and promptly named Harvard College in consequence of John Harvard's bequest of books and money that fall...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But so entrenched were the traditions and methods of gaining this degree at Harvard, and so long and forbidding the task of changing them, that he preferred to leave it to a younger man who should succeed him. This archaic and cumbersome bequest, the Graduate School, may be regarded as the greatest problem of the new presidency...
...Bequests made to Harvard University during the summer total $845,000. James Loeb '88, left three. The first was a $300,000 "Loeb Classical Library Foundation" for research in Greek and Latin literature; the second a $500,000 trust fund for Harvard University, the income from which is to be used to increase salaries of tutors and assistants in the department of the classics; and the third, a, $5,000 bequest to the University Library, the income from which is to be used for maintaining the Loeb Library...