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...principles which have guided his policy throughout twenty-three years as Harvard's chief executive. But when he says that "Everything in a University is a means to a distant end," President Lowell is sounding the Keynote not only to his administration but less obviously to this, his final bequest to his successors. With the clear foresight and profound understanding that have distinguished him as a builder, he outlines, for the guidance of those who must carry on, the foundations upon which his work has rested and upon which theirs must rest, if it is to fulfill the ideal...
...custom of sending exchange professors from Harvard to France was inaugurated in 1911, through the generosity of J. H. Hyde '98, and was subsequently made permanent through a bequest of Robert Bacon '80, former ambassador to France. Professor P. J. Sachs '00, associate director of the Fogg Art Museum, holds this chair at the present time...
...bequest consisting of a collection of 600 volumes of Utopian literature has been received by the College Library from the Reverend F. G. Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, emeritus. The most important volumes of the collection are at present on display in the Treasure Room of the Library...
...June 30, 1932, the book value of endowment funds, exclusive of land and buildings used for educational purposes, was $123,415,389.51, an increase of $6,211,139.17 over the previous year. A portion of the residuary bequest of the late Stuart Wyeth '84, and the receipt of a trust fund established by the late Nelson Robinson, were the principle items contributing to this increase...
...correspond to the former living room and balcony, with a connecting foyer and stairway. In these rooms the paintings and other works of the collection have been placed in an informal manner, corresponding to the Farnsworth Room in Widener Library. This is in accord with the terms of the bequest, by which Mrs. Naumberg requested that as little as possible of the formal atmosphere be created...