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...money seems to have been spent on the library for some time and the best way to use part of the bequest left last year for its improvement is to help the ventilation. A very slight expense in this particular would go a great ways and prove to make a vast difference in the attractiveness of the place...
...Price-Greenleaf foundation. At least 120 will be awarded this year. The beneficiary funds distributed during the year amounted to about $2500. This year considerably more than $10,000 in addition will be available for distribution as beneficiary funds. This great sum comes from the Price-Greenleaf bequest, and forms the most remarkable benefaction of the kind ever created. When it becomes known that the college has funds to this amount to distribute, there will undoubtedly be a sudden increase in the number of poor students desirous of making Harvard the scene of their labors. As previously stated, the aggregate...
...before the board of trustees early in the present year, Prof. Pickering states that the munificence of the late Robert Treat Paine has now begun to provide the encouragement which he desired to give to the science of astronomy; the sum of $165,000, comprising about half of his bequest, having been received by the treasurer of the University, and the income therefrom being already available for the support of work at the Observatory. The addition of this fund to those previously available raises the endowment of the institution to a little short of $400,000. This recent increase...
...president and fellows of Harvard College have recently come into possession of a munificent bequest of $230,000 and upward, which is applicable only for purposes of special astronomical investigation. A circular has been issued from the college observatory, bearing date March 1, in which the facts are set forth and certain information is asked for. In the circular the case is stated as follows...
...astronomical department of Harvard possesses world-wide fame, as is well known to all. But still it must be esteemed a great and special compliment to the University that the management of a large bequest, devoted to astronomical research, should be entrusted to the Harvard observatory. Yet it is fitting that this magnificent sum of $230,000, bequeathed by the late Uriah A. Boyden, should be given over by the trustees to the care of the Harvard observatory. For where in this country can be found an astronomical observatory so well equipped in every particular, or scientists of greater ability...