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...following description of the manuscripts and books which came to the Widener Library through the bequest of Mrs. James T. Fields, by G. P. Winship '98, the Widener Collection Librarian, is reprinted here from the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
...bequest of Mrs. James T. Fields gives Widener Library twenty-five of the more important volumes from the 'Shelf of Old Books' which she described so delightfully in her essays published under that title in 1894. In their new home they can never exert the charm --of which they were after all but a part of the frame--that made Mrs. Fields's home for a third of a century the most-sought literary mecca for those who knew their way about Boston. They will, however, find some old and many new friends on the securer shelves of the library...
...late William S. Murphy '85 has made in his will a peculiar bequest to the College. He leaves to it all his property, "to be devoted to the establishment, of one or more scholarships for the collegiate education of any young man or men named 'Murphy' who in the judgment of the Faculty should prove deserving of this kind of encouragement." He suggests that the young men be found through advertisements in New York and Boston papers...
Should no young man take advantage of the bequest, the income is to be used for the best interests of the College...
...regular assignment of the Price Greenleaf Aid is made before the student enters college and this subsequent award is made only to first-year students of high standing. The winners will be announced after the mid-year examinations. The bequest is distributed in sums of from $100 to $250 a year...