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According to the will of Mrs. Gladys Carroll Marvin, widow of Benson Marvin, banker, Harvard University receives a conditional bequest of $165,000 for research work to find a cure for tuberculosis...
Based on the greediness of mankind, the plot of the play is woven about a rich man's bequest to a group of avaricious relatives, and provides many amusing and interesting situations. The Liberal Club has bought out the house for the second Boston performance of this play and is now selling tickets at the Harvard Cooperative Society with no advance in prices...
...University Library will receive $15,000 from the estate of the late Alice Longfellow according to the terms of her will which was filed in the Middlesex Probate Court yesterday. This sum which was one of many public bequests is to constitute a perpetual fund in honor of her father who held a professorship in modern languages in the University. The gift stipulates that this fund is to be known as the Henry Wads worth Longfellow Fund, the income of which is to be used in the purchase of library books in foreign languages to aid in the studies...
...influence-he has been on the Board of Trustees since 1912 -Stanford has changed from a liberal arts college of limited enrolment, which it was founded to be, into an evergrowing institute of technology. None knew better than Herbert Hoover the stipulations of the late Senator Stanford's bequest. But after he had formed his own philosophy for industrial civilization, Hoover said, "It can't be helped. Stanford must be changed." So mass education came in. The oldtime stars of the faculty, like John Branner and Dr. David Starr Jordan (since 1916 president-emeritus), were surrounded and succeeded...
...honor the memory of two Yale graduates of the eighteenth century, who became the first presidents of Princeton and Dartmouth, by naming the dormitory buildings now located at York and Library Streets. Dickinson Hall and Wheelock Hall. Funds for the erection of these buildings were provid by a bequest made to Yale by the late M. Judson of Bridgeport. Conn...