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...Widener Library has recently received a bequest of a collection of books and reports concerning railroads by the will of the late Robert D. Jenks '97, of Philadelphia. Mr. Jenks was a lawyer, especially interested in railroad problems and statistics, and his collection is valuable. The library has lately received its regular shipment from England. Among the books received was a complete set of "Punch" for the Farnsworth Room...
...annual prize of $100 is awarded, from a bequest of Addison Brown '52, late judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, for the best essay by a student in the Law School on some designated subject of maritime or private international law, under prescribed regulations...
...strong and efficient department of engineering education and research. Since that time the University has concluded its affiliations with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and with the intention of making the best possible use of the endowment, the President and Fellows of Harvard have petitioned the trustees of the bequest to transfer the funds to Technology. This is certainly contrary to the letter, and, according to the trustees, to the spirit of Mr. Mackay's will, for the latter intended to build up a superior department of engineering under the sole control of the Harvard Faculty...
Fifty-four members of the Freshman Class have been awarded Price Greenleaf aid assignments for 1916-17. 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...
...name of Murphy. The money therefore accumulates; but it will not be lost, for sooner or later the Murphys will come forward. Their present apparent reluctance is probably due in about equal proportions to diffidence and to the limited amount of publicity which Mr. William S. Murphy's generous bequest has received. The offer was a useful as well as a picturesque one, and was altogether to be commended, and it is fair to predict that in time it will add many men, though only one name, to America's roll of fame. The temptation of a free education...