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...Ingersoll Lecture for the current year will be given some time in May by Professor William Osler, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University, whose subject will be "Science and Immortality." This is the sixth lecture provided since 1893, when the bequest was made. The last lecture was that given by the late Dr. John Fiske in 1900 on the subject of "Life Everlasting." The bequest provides that the lectures shall be on the general subject of the "Immortality of Man," and that each lecture shall be published after it has been delivered...
...conditions on which this bequest is to be made is that "the net income of the Endowment be used to promote applied science; first, by maintaining professorships, workshops, laboratories, and collections for all of those scientific subjects which have applications useful to man; and second, by aiding meritorious and needy students in pursuing those subjects...
...reported that by the will of Mary Putnam Ropes of Salem, the University will receive a bequest of Boston and Maine railroad common stock to endow the Nathaniel Ropes Professorship of Political Economy. The surplus, if any, is to go to the Peabody Museum. A second bequest from the same source of one-half the interest of an annuity bend of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, is to establish the Nathaniel Ropes; Jr., fund, the purpose of which is not stated. At present it is impossible to estimate the value of these bequests...
...reported that by the will of the late Gordon McKay of Newport, R. L., the University will receive a bequest of about $4,000,000. The details of the bequest will not be known until the will is filed for probate...
...meeting of the Corporation on April 13, the Treasurer reported the receipt from the executors of the estate of Mrs. Rebecca C. Ames of her bequest of $50,000, the income of which is to be applied to "the maintenance and support of any of the poor and meritorious students" in Harvard College...