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...Ingersoll Lecture is given annually, this being its thirteenth year. It is a lectureship supported by a $5,000 bequest from Miss Caroline Harkell Ingersoll, in accordance with the wish of her father, George Goldthwaite Ingersoll 1815. The lecture is open to the public...
...White, h.'90, for immediate use in the department of Social Ethics; securities amounting to $28,000 from Mrs. J. K. Paine to establish the John Knowles Paine Fellowship in Music; twenty-four thousand dollars from the estate of Mrs. Caroline M. Barnard on account of her residuary bequest; from the estate of Dr. Henry P. Bowditch '61, $4,000 in cash and certain books and instruments, in accordance with the terms of his will; the books and pamphlets from the library of the late Professor Charles Robert Sanger, from Mrs. Sanger, for the library of the Chemical Laboratory...
...runs the daily paper of the town, on a thoroughly businesslike basis. There is one at New York University, which has the advantage of being in immediate touch with the centre of progressive journalism, and can therefore obtain the advice of almost any prominent metropolitan newspaper man. The Pulitzer bequest is to be used to start a school of journalism at Columbia along entirely new lines. These departments are not liable to the single criticism which is sometimes thrown at our business school: that it teaches a man to head a business, but does not help him much...
...Huntington Hospital has been built under the direction of the Harvard Cancer Commission, which was founded by a $100,000 bequest from Mrs. Caroline Brewer Croft for the scientific study of cancer...
...competition will be argued on February 12, and briefs must be put in the competition box before February 5. A prize of $200 will be awarded to the winning club and another of $100 to the club losing in this final round. These prizes were established by a bequest of the late Dean Ames...