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...Francis Boott Prize in musical composition was yesterday awarded to Hubert Weldon Lamb '80, of Concord. The prize carries with it a cash award of $100 which is drawn from the bequest of Francis Boott, of the class...
Since 1925 the Harvard Fund has become widely recognized as one of the most important of all Alumni activities. Harvard's continual and increasing need for what the late President Eliot called "free money" is not covered by its great endowment. The average bequest to Harvard, as to most other universities, carries some sort of stipulation as to its assignment and use. All money contributed to the Harvard Fund, however, is put at the disposal of the President and Fellows of the College to be employed as they see fit. One of the great needs of the moment is money...
...Dental School's imminent need is monetary assistance. Although it is fortunate enough in its ability to draft capable instructors for a pittance, the absence of suitable resources places its present position at an impasse. When the Wyeth Bequest was announced a few months ago, several metropolitan newspapers assumed, seemingly without foundation, that some part of it was to be devoted to the Dental School. Whether or not that is the solution is debatable; at least, the discussion brought into prominence the evidence of the needs of this branch of the University. The modern university, to maintain its position must...
Newark, N. J., March 13--The construction of a laboratory for the study of practical applied hydraulics at the Harvard Engineering School was made possible by a $50,000 bequest in the will of Clemens Herschel '61, noted hydraulic engineer, who died on March 1. In the will probated here today the sum was set aside as a trust fund for Mrs. Herschel, to revert to Harvard on her death...
...Gosh, you're beautiful! You remind me more than anybody else I ever knew of my wife [the late, gorgeous Lillian Russell]." In Pittsburgh the last will and testament of the late, great Alexander Pollock Moore (TIME, Feb. 24) was opened last week and found to contain a bequest of $100,000 to the Queen who reminded him of Lillian...