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...fortunate, in a way, that the planners of Boylston sacrificed beauty for jail-house construction. The bequest, which provided that "said building (should be) of stone and properly secured against fire both from within and from without," prophesied a disastrous event...
...Fletcher School was founded jointly by Harvard and Tufts in 1933, to "offer a broad program of professional training in international affairs to a elect group of graduate students." Its birth, however, was difficult and uncertain. When Austin B. Fletcher, president of the Tufts Board of Trustees, left a bequest of $1,000,000 for a law school, many universities were interested...
...officials announced yesterday that they will again distribute some 35 food baskets to needy Cambridge families in time for Thanksgiving. The baskets, which contain nearly a week's supply of food, are being bought with funds from a bequest by a charity foundation...
...bequest was part of Mrs. Wilks' $75,000,000 will which went mostly to charity...
...renaissance just after the war, the Club was on the way down. A solution to its declining fortunes appeared after the death of Allston Burr when in the spring of 1950 the University announced that it would build a new club near Lowell House. Funds would come from a bequest by Burr which were not specifically earmarked for a new Club, but which the University thought placed a moral obligation on it to build the new meeting place...