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...large collection of books has just been donated to Widener Library in the form of a bequest from the estate of Edwin Hale Abbot '55. The volumes constitute a miscellaneous group of sets, novels and text books, along with a considerable number of valuable pamphlets. The 1347 books and 247 pamphlets came to the library through his son, E. H. Abbot Jr. '03, a Boston lawyer...
...students have been increasing more rapidly than the undergraduates, and considering the large number of schools for the latter in this country it would seem that giving a higher and more rapid teaching to graduates will be our line of greatest usefulness. More than twenty years ago, when the bequest of Gordon McKay was received, the Governing Boards voted to turn the Lawrence Scientific School into a graduate School no one at the time, apparently, observing that this might be inconsistent with a provision in the will that instruction under the fund must be "kept accessible to pupils who have...
Left. By the late Patrick Francis Murphy, famed after-dinner speaker, president of Mark Cross Co. (TIME, Dec. 7); an estate valued at "over $10,000"; to his wife and children, save for a bequest of $20,000 to "my personal friend and employee," Lillian Evelyn Ramsgate, vice president and director of Mark Cross Co., with the "express direction" that she be appointed president...
...bequest was made to Harvard for the purpose of establishing the General Artemas Ward Memorial Fund in memory of the donor's great-grandfather...
Over five million dollars was yesterday discovered to be the sum which was left to Harvard University by the will of Ariemas Ward, former head of the well known advertising firm of that name, who died in 1925. The exact amount of the bequest, which totals $5,370,669, has never before been made public due to the fact that the gift went to an educational institution and was exempt from taxation...