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Last week the newspapers featured a story that Major Clarence Wiener '00, had threatened to cut out of his will a bequest of $10,000,000 to Harvard unless the connection of Professor Muensterberg with the University was severed at once. The reason for this action of Major Wiener's was found in the general tone of some of Professor Muensterberg's statements in which he spoke freely in defense of Germany. The decisive action of the Corporation in refusing to accept Major Weiner's offer was the first which has been officially taken in the matter...
...provided that they dismissed Professor Muensterburg. This report started from a letter which was received by the Boston Globe, purporting to be a copy of a letter sent by Mr. Wiener to Dean Yeomans. In this letter Dr. Wiener is supposed to have stated that he had made a bequest of $10,000,000 to Harvard, but that, owing to certain remarks made by Professor Muensterburg in reference to the present European situation, he would withdraw this bequest unless Professor Muensterburg be dismissed...
...will of the late Judge Addison Brown, of New York, Harvard University receives a bequest of $10,000 to be applied as follows: "$7,500 thereof in founding a scholarship bearing the name 'Addison Brown,' the income thereof to be applied toward paying the expenses of some needy meritorious undergraduate student to be designated by the College under prescribed regulations; the remaining $2,500 of said $10,000 legacy in establishing a Prize Fund bearing the name 'Addison Brown' in the Dane Law School, now known as the Harvard Law School, the income thereof to be awarded annually or biennally...
...University will receive $20,000 from the estate of John L. Cadwalader, '61, LL.B., whose will was recently filed for probate. The bequest will be in the form of a fund to purchase books for the Law School. $5,000 is also left to the Alumni Association of the Harvard Law School of New York City, of which Mr. Cadwalader was president...
...music is of sacred character, the type exemplified in Chembine, Mozart, etc., is recommended in Mr. Boott's bequest. The committee suggests as texts Milton's "Blest pair of sirens" ("At a solemn music"), and the "Sanctus" or "Benedictus" of the Roman Catholic mass. Compositors may, however, choose any words that they wish...