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...Previous medalists: Representative Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, U. S. Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. *In his only codicil, Mr. Baker revoked a $2,000 bequest he had made to Frank Healy, who lately left his employ...
These lectures are given under the terms of a bequest from John Clarence Cutler, whose will provided that they should be given in Boston, and should be free to the medical profession and the press...
Barnard College in Manhattan announced last week that it had accepted a bequest of $3,000, income of which will go annually to that Barnard senior who "has given conspicuous evidence of unselfishness during her college course." Donor of the fund is the late Mrs. Ella Fitzgerald Bryson of Manhattan (Barnard 1894) who wished so to honor her late husband, unselfish Frank Gilbert Bryson...
...memorials established for them at Drew. And the only Wendel sister ever to marry (Rebecca Swope) was married by a Drew President. Originally a theological seminary founded by Daniel Drew of financial infamy. Drew recently became a university as result of a paltry $1,500,000 bequest. With $5,000,000 or so from the last Wendel, it may begin to make its title a fact under its present president, Dr. Arlo Ayres Brown...
...gift of $200,000 to Harvard College was recently announced in Surrogate's Court, Newark, New Jersey. The donation arose from a case in which Harvard contested the terms of a bequest...