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Franklin and Marshal College, at Lancaster, Pa., has received a bequest of $10,000, for the purpose of building an observatory...
...Cincinnati University accepts a conditional bequest of property bringing $15,000 per annum, from the estate of Joseph Longworth...
...gift of this sort is hardly considered worthy of notice by the press unless it be among the hundred thousands. The example of Johns Hopkins in endowing the university of his name at Baltimore and of Judge Packer in founding Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, emphasized recently by the additional bequest of his son the late President Packer of the Lehigh R. R., of some four or five millions to the same college, are recent cases in point. Another remarkable instance of the same sort is the recent distribution by will of some hundreds of thousands of dollars among various smaller...
Franklin and Marshal College, at Lancaster, Pa., has received a bequest of $10,000, for the purpose of building an observatory...
...University of Vermont has received a bequest of $115,000. A handsome gymnasium is to be erected. A bronze statue of Lafayette, who laid the corner-stone of the university, is soon to be unveiled on the campus...