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...Murdock faced, with two such excellent designers and managers, was that of finances. Robert Bacon '80, a partner in J. P. Morgan, had verbally promised Lane $50,000, but when he died in France during the First World War he left no will. His estate did not recognize the bequest and by 1920, funds were running low. The policy of printing beautiful editions of books with limited sales appeal meant that the Press was laden with equal parts honor and deficit. As is the case with all university printing plants, the Printing Office was self-supporting, and even showed...
Along with three other Harvard members already appointed, the committee will make its selections after April 15, the final date for the fellowships applications. Their choices will be the 17th annual group of newspapermen appointed for a year of background study at Harvard. These fellowships were established on a bequest from Agnes W. Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal...
Fingold had refused to act as plaintiff in a suit against the Corporation prohibiting the transference of books and specimens from the Arboretum to the new Herbarium. In Massachusetts, suits against a charitable trust--into which class the Arnold bequest falls--may only be brought in the Attorney General's name...
...Herbarium, this group sent three formal protests to the Corporation, about the proposed move from the Arboretum. The dissenters contend that the Arboretum "always should be, as in the past, a semi-independent institution of Harvard." Moving to Cambridge, they feel, would thwart the purpose of Arnold's bequest...
This dispute went unresolved until 1950, when a committee of distinguished U. S. scientists, appointed by President Conant, decided that McKay had intended that his bequest go toward the engineering sciences. He had expressed an especial interest in mechanical engineering...