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Professor T. H. Dillon, aided by other members of the Business School Faculty, will conduct this year a course on "Public Utility Management", open free of charge to men who satisfy the Business School that they are properly qualified. The course is in accordance with the terms of the bequest of George H. Leatherbee by which one free course is given annually in the school...
Among the most valuable books in the entire bequest, it is reported, is a complete collection of the Rollo books, written some years ago for young people. They were given to Miss Lowell, it appears in her childhood, and kept until today when they have attained a considerable value. Single copies from the series are frequently to be found, but an entire set is believed to be extremely rare...
...business of Artemus Ward, Inc., was valued at between two and three million dollars at the time of the bequest. The amount which will fall to the University through the sale of the company has not been made known...
Weight does not count much (the convolutions are more important) in determining the ability of a brain, but in so far as weight may be taken as a guide, Mrs. Gardener by the bequest of her brain placed herself in formidable company...
Having spent my life in using such brains as I possess in trying to better conditions of humanity, especially women, and having many years ago agreed to will my brain to Cornell (at their request), I hereby confirm that bequest, provided that a depleting illness or some special brain disturbance shall not have produced such brain disintegration as to render it no longer representative of the brains of women who have used their brains for the public welfare, as stated in the request of Cornell as the reason for wanting it, so as to add to the knowledge...