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...Dowse Institute was founded by a bequest left by Thomas Dowse, a Cambridge merchant, to provide entertainment and intellectual guidance for the people of Cambridge...
...Milton Fund is derived from the estate of William F. Milton '58, who made a bequest to the University, effective on the death of Mrs. Milton...
This concert, open to the public free of charge, is made possible through the bequest of J. A. Beebe '69, to be used at the discretion of P. L. Atherton '93 for the advancement of music at the University...
...named Asa Packer. In 1884 it graduated a young man named James Ward Packard who took his mechanical engineering knowledge back to Warren, Ohio, his birthplace, and put it to work. Last week Lehigh University acknowledged the receipt, from James Ward Packard, of the largest single bequest since its initial gifts and endowment (two millions and 60 acres of land in South Bethlehem, Pa.) from Asa Packer - a million-dollar engineering laboratory that was to be the world's "finest." The similarity of the names Packer and Packard " was sheerest coincidence but not so the careers behind them...
Administration of bequests and taxes has reduced the estate to $53,400,000. Payments included a Federal inheritance tax of $6,560, 000, and $10,000,000 bequest to Duke University (Durham, N. C.), to which Tobaccoman Duke gave $40,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) while he was yet alive...