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...bequest of $150,000 has been received by the University from the estate of Mrs. S. A. Matchett as a special fund to be called the "Matchett Fund," the income of which is to be used for the general purposes of the College...
...Museum has received by bequest from the late Francis Bullard '86, a valuable early Italian engraving by Antonio Pollainolo, a famous Florentine master who lived from 1429-1498. It is perhaps one of the most important prints in existence. It was bequeathed to the Museum as a memorial to Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and is now on exhibition in the main gallery...
...petition of the University Corporation that it be allowed to sell part of the Bussey Estate in West Roxbury was granted recently by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts. As originally established in 1871 through the bequest of Benjamin Bussey Institution was for the encouragement of theological and legal education in the University: the other half to be devoted to the promotion of practical agriculture. In 1908 the institution was re-organized solely as an institution for advanced instruction and research in subjects relating to practical agriculture and as such it is now being used. The part of the Estate...
...will of the late Professor Morris Loeb '83, of the New York University Faculty, Harvard University will receive $500,000 at the death of Mrs. Loeb, the sum to be devoted to the advancement of physics and chemistry. In making the bequest to the University the testator says it is to be used for the above purpose "in other ways than by the payment of fellowships, scholarships, or other direct emoluments to students." The remainder of the estate of something over $1,000,000 will be devoted to public bequests...
...available for the construction of the new buildings of the Institute amount to over $6,000,000, there still remains a shortage that must be met before it will be possible to erect the new Cambridge structures. The above amount does not include the money involved in the Pratt bequest, which is now in litigation, and which, if decided in favor of Technology, will raise the total to over...