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...Engineering School, founded under the terms of the McKay bequest, may be said to have really come into existence yesterday, for, though first opened last fall, it has now become entirely reorganized. Its large enrolment presages well for its success...
John Harvard's library, which was part of his bequest to the College, was destroyed by fire in 1764. A catalogue which was compiled under the direction of President Dunster of the College gives a fairly complete list of the books which the University's founder had gathered together. There were approximately 300 volumes in all. The Memorial Society is gradually collecting a library which, in a few years, will be a fair reproduction of the original...
...University has received a bequest of $10,000 from the estate of Horace Davis '49, the income of which is to be used for the purchase of books relating to the Northern Pacific Ocean and its shores for the Widener Library...
Fifty-nine members of the Freshman class have been awarded Price Greenleaf aid assignments for 1917-1918. These awards represent part of an annual appropriation of $16,000, given to the University by the bequest of Ezekiel Price Greenleaf, of Quincy, who is also the founder of ten Price Greenleaf scholarships...
...recent bequest of $500,000, made by the late Eckley B. Coxe, Jr., of Philadelphia, for the work of the Egyptian section in the University Museum in that city, is a gift unparalleled in archaeology and places the work in Egypt on a permanent basis...