Word: bequest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...annual prize of one hundred dollars is awarded from a bequest of Addison Brown, late judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, for the best essay by one of the students in the Law School on some designated subject of Maritime or Private International Law under prescribed regulations. The subject selected for this year are: "Taxation of the Corporate Excess of Interstate Corporations." "A Comparison of the British Marine Insurance Act with American Law," "The Domicile of a Married Woman," "When Does Title to a Prize Pass...
...announced winner of the Coolidge Debating Prize of $100, being judged the best speaker of those competing. The six speakers will be awarded gold medals and the alternates silver medals, at a banquet to be held later this season, as provided by the terms of the Coolidge bequest. The judges were Frderick G. White and Robert Winternitz, both of the English department of the University, and Julian H. Spitz...
...scholarship has been established at the University in memory of William J. Buckminster of the Class of 1835. The scholarship is established by a bequest of $5000 from the estate of William Bradley Buckminster '70. This is the second scholarship founded by Mr. Buckminster, the first being in memory of his son, Morey Willard Buckminster...
...instance of the Business School's success in keeping up with the times is the course on Income Taxation which is given for the first time this year by Dr. R. F. Tucker under the terms of the George H. Leatherbee bequest. After a brief study of the system of income taxes in general, the leading provisions of the War Revenue Act of 1919 will be analyzed in their application to common business experience. Visiting lecturers will also present situations for analysis and the students will report their solutions...
These courses are being given in accordance with the will of George H. Leatherbee '82, who died in 1911 and left a bequest to Harvard upon the condition that when the income became sufficiently large, it should be applied to "supplying lectures and instruction upon the subjects of commercial business and finance," these lectures to be open to the public, as well as students at the University...