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...Bequest Over $1 Million...
...Porter, who died September 19 at the age of 36, left a direct bequest of $1,093,000 to Harvard. She also left her home, once the residence of poet James Russell Lowell, and $35,000 for maintenance of photographic and literary material given to the University by her husband...
...Titanic crash brought the only other major change to Harvard that year, with the bequest of the Widener collection which included first editions of Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser, Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Keats, and Shelley. There were also volumes of the modern authors: Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Stevenson, which in many instances were personally associated with their authors. Some copies contained presentation inscriptions; others, manuscript corrections and annotations...
...Bliss bequest is one of the largest to be received by the University in several years...
Following are this year's winners of the Bowdoin English prizes, Harvard's oldest and most distinguished literary honor. The prizes are awarded from the income of the bequest of Gov. James Bowdoin (A.B., 1745) to both graduates and undergraduates...