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...credence is the report that these two worthies are bargains secured long ago from the veteran corps of the Cambridge Street Railway Company. Ourselves, we incline to the theory that both were a part of the original foundation of the college and as such under the terms of the bequest have become inalienable parts of the college possessions ; and hence they have remained from year to year incapable of death from fear of statutory prohibition, and thus deprived of that welcome release which, if their unhappy lot had been otherwise, would long since have been theirs. However all this...
...about seven years ago, to assist students who might be taken sick while pursuing their studies. The membership consisted of three members of the faculty and one student from each of the four classes. The Guild as first organized was allowed to lapse in consequence of Mrs. Fiske's bequest for the erection and maintenance of a hospital, but since this bequest is rendered inoperative by litigation, it has been thought best to reorganize the project...
...Fiske bequest is lost for by the last financial statement, made on Jan. 1, 1883, the university property amounted to $4,699,582, exclusive of 168,000 acres of Western lands still unsold, and of the $768,800 already received from the Fiske estate. The principal loss will be in the enforced delay of the new library building and the Students' Hospital, for which Mrs. Fiske left...
...avenue, with a frontage on that street of 320 feet, is also wined to the college, with authority to sell it and devote the proceeds to the purpose intended. The house is a handsome one, in the most aristocratic part of the city, and the total value of the bequest is roughly estimated at $200,000, with the chances that, before the death of Mrs. Farnam and her son, the property will have largely increased in value. During his lifetime the late Mr. Farnam gave about $70,000 to Yale College, the most of it for a dormitory that bears...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology building, with an address by President Eliot. President Eliot spoke of the present condition of the school, contrasting it with its small beginning. In speaking of the support the faculty had received from outsiders, he said: "The school has received by gift and bequest $320,000 in ten years; it has secured itself in the centre of the city for many years to come by the timely purchase of a large piece of land; it has paid about $220,000 for a spacious, durable and well arranged building; it has increased its annual expenditure for salaries...