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Although it is well past the halfway mark, Huggins said that the campaign still urgently needed $880,000 this year in order to retain a bequest of $250,000 which is contingent on the drive reaching the four-million mark before Dec. 27 of this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Endowment Fund At Divinity School Tops $3,000,000 | 5/12/1955 | See Source »

...million dollars, which was willed to the University in 1932 by Boston attorney Charles H. Tyler has collected $590,341 waiting for stipulations of the bequest to be ironed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Surgical Unit Established at City Hospital | 5/11/1955 | See Source »

...second bequest of 8,000 shares of common stock, worth about $550,000, endows a fund to be known as the Eugene duPont Fund. One-third of the income from the endowment will be applied through the Harvard Fund Council to the unrestricted funds of the College. The remaining two-thirds of the bequest will endow the Eugene duPont Scholarships for undergraduates...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: DuPont Wills $635,000 To College Endowment | 5/3/1955 | See Source »

...death four years ago, J. Brooks B. Parker, Philadelphia insurance man, left an unusual bequest. He set aside $25,000 for a "contemporary appraisement . . . without fear, favor or prejudice" of the influence of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the U.S. The appraiser chosen by the Parker executors: Edgar Eugene Robinson, now 68, longtime professor of American political history at Stanford, and founder of that university's Institute of American History. Professor Robinson does more than fulfill the terms of the Parker will; he brings to his book the settling virtues of scholarship and cold common sense. The F.D.R. who emerges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: F.D.R. Under a Microscope | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Successful early returns, amounting to $3,000, from the current drive of the baseball, tennis, and golf teams for money to defray the expenses of their southern trips during spring vacation have occasioned this optimism, Getchell added. In addition, a specific bequest of $5,000 was given by W. Palmer Dixon '25, to establish a separate squash fund...

Author: By John A. Rava, | Title: Fund Appeals In All Sports May Combine | 3/12/1955 | See Source »

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