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...total of $5,000,000, probably the largest single bequest ever received from an alumnus, has been left to the University without restrictions by the late Thomas W. Lamont '96, according to details of the financier-philanthropist's will, made public yesterday...
Besides their association with the prize of Alfred B. Nobel, established by the inventor of dynamite in 1896, and the mutual ownership of a picket fence, Cadbury and Bridman have another common ground. Both hold the oldest professorial chairs in the College under the Hollis eighteenth century bequest...
Three additional winners of scholarships under the bequest of Charles H. Smith, Providence, R.I., businessman, were announced by the University yesterday, joining the eight recipients made public last July...
...bequest of "more than $250,000" has been given to the University for the establishment of a new chair to be known as the Gardiner chair in Oceanic History and Affairs, the New York County Surrogate's Court announced last week...
...Richmond, Va., litigation brought to light a sentimental bequest which sounded as though it had been copied straight from a Civil War ballad. Valentine Browne Lawless, a soldier killed in Europe in 1944, had left $3,000 to provide "one perfect rose of any color to be sent each Saturday morning to the girl I love very dearly and whom I will love for the rest of my life...