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...Harvard Corporation accepts, by vote, every gift and bequest. When it meets, the Corporation is presented with a list of gifts and their purposes. The Corporation must approve the terms, and occasionally someone might put restrictions on a gift with which the Corporation could not agree. For example, a case actually occurred where a man offered to set up a scholarship for boys by a certain surname from a small town. The scholarship would obviously serve no one but his own family...
...many of these series. One of the oldest, and the largest, is the Loeb Classical Library, a 400-volume presentation of Greek and Latin works with the original text on the lefthand page and the translation on the right. Supported by a $300,000 endowment, it is the bequest of James C. Loeb '88, a bachelor banker who after his retirement in 1901 lived in a Bavarian castle surrounded by books...
...educational institutions were among the beneficiaries named in Lamont's will. Together, they will share a quarter of his estate, but, since the terms of the bequest have not yet been sent to Harvard, it is not known what proportion of this money will go to the University...
...same, when word of the intended bequest leaked to London's Sunday Telegraph last week, the Tate was embarrassed. Moore wants to be certain that his works can be publicly displayed, but the gallery still needs to raise $2,100,000 for a new wing. Nonetheless, Moore plans to announce an itemized gift list next year on his 70th birthday. "If the gallery puts up a special wing with a complete unity of its own, I shall be pleased," he said, adding: "But I am not laying down any conditions...
...Fogg for study purposes. Labels never bore his name as lender or donor; the only identification they wore was that they were from "A Friend of the Fogg." Sachs, upon his death in 1965 at the age of 86, had given 2,690 works to the museum, a bequest by an individual to a teaching collection unequaled in its taste and scope...