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...School Fund this week passed the $1,390,000 mark in its drive for $2,500,000, of which $1,659,000 is for the new Graduate Center. The Law School is also counting towards its total a $255,000 bequest from the estate of William Nelson Cromwell...
Coolidge stated that he had not seen the exact conditions of the will, and therefore could not tell if there were any restrictions on the bequest. The paintings may be kept by Mrs. Wertheim, however, until her death, at which time they will be moved to the Museum. It is also probable that they will have to be kept in a unit...
Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Gaugin, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Renoir, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec are included in the gift. Sculptures by Despiau and Maillol, and drawings by Guys, Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir also are listed in the bequest...
...letters stressed two main points: the fact that Allston Burr's bequest carried with it a "moral obligation" to erect a new Club, and the urgent immediate need for the new building...
...A.V.C. in its letter to the Corporation, termed the use of part of Burr's $1,500,000 bequest to build a new Varsity Club an "almost cynical disregard for rational allocation of resources in the University...