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...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial last week ruled against the claim to a $26,000 bequest. It a lower court decision...
Founded in 1872 on the bequest of a New Bedford merchant, John Arnold, the arboretum comprises 265 acres of land in Jamaica Plain, near the Forest Hills MBTA Station. A major center for world plant study, it contains over 6,500 living species of woody trees, shrubs and vines...
...Steamship Co. and the Panama Railroad, he created Webb's Academy and Home for Shipbuilders-the first and still the only college in the U.S. devoted solely to naval architecture and marine engineering (though comparable courses are offered by M.I.T. and the University of Michigan). Webb's bequest of $2,500,000, now grown to $8,000,000, pays 70% of the school's operating expenses. Alumni and industry make up the rest, helping to pay the salaries of 14 faculty members under President William T. Alexander, 63, former dean of engineering at Boston's Northeastern...
Despite the demands of his work, Reisner was able somehow to build, and bequeath to the University, his extensive mystery collection. Because his secretary asked that British and American troops in Egypt be allowed to read the books, Harvard did not receive Reisner's bequest until 1945. Although the story that it was expecting a shipment of soberminded treatises seems dubious, Widener's cataloguers were surprised to discover that about a fifth of the novels had been graded, much as term papers are graded by professors in Cambridge...
...their capital," says Mrs. Halpert. Her remedy is a magnificent mixture (see color pages) of Marin, Sheeler, Davis, Demuth, Jack Levine, Ben Shahn, William Zorach, Max Weber-all at one time shown in her gallery -and dozens more. Yet she refuses to let the Corcoran label her bequest as the Halpert Collection, because she hopes to persuade others to give works. "There are lots of gaps," says she. "You see, I've only bought the things I've loved." Her love has hardly gone astray...