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...large bequest will be received by the University as residuary legatee in the will of Mrs. Susan Greene Dexter, late of Boston, it was announced yesterday afternoon, when the will was filed in the Suffolk Probate office yesterday. Mr. Roland Gray '95 was appointed executor. No definite information has been released as to the probable amount of the bequest, but it was understood last night from reliable sources that the sum involved will in all likelihood reach the hundreds of thousands...
...income from the bequest will be devoted to supporting research work in bacteriology and to purchasing books for the library. Both of Mrs. Dexter's sons are graduates of the University; Gordon Dexter completing his course in 1887 and Samuel Dexter, now dead, graduating three years later...
...Cutter Lectures are given under the terms of the bequest of Dr. John Clarence Cutter M. 77, a graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1872 and of the Harvard Medical School in 1877. At his death in 1909 these lectures were founded. They are open free of charge to the medical profession and the press and this year in addition medical and public health students and others interested are cordially invited to attend...
...special bequest of $10,000 was made to Harvard in the will from the income of which a scholarship is to be created which will be awarded annually to a student in the field of government...
Another section of the "will" is a bequest made to Mme. Rasimi (well-known Parisienne entrepreneuse and directress of the Ba-ta-Clan Theatre, where Millerand once delivered a famed address) of "a republic entirely done over and entirely renovated and a demolished National Bloc, all of which is to be used as accessories for a new comedy which is destined to change the Ba-ta-Clan into a Washout Palace...