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Allowing freedom to travel and study as the recipient chooses, the fellowships are among the highest academic honors awarded here. They were established in 1909 by the bequest of Mrs. Amey Richmond Sheldon in memory of her husband, a member of the class...
Seventy-nine of the ninety-eight journalists who have come to Harvard under the plan founder in 1937 by a bequest in the will of Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman are attending the conference, which began yesterday with a discussion on international affairs by Dean Landis and others in the Faculty Club. Today there will be two dinners, a breakfast, a luncheon, a tea, a "Derby party with Mint Juleps," and two forums...
...stimulating "scholarly and scientific research in the fundamental disciplines" among the generation of students interrupted by the war, the University has decided to shift the income of the Milton Fund and Clark Bequest so as to aid students primarily rather than members of the staff...
Except for a brief period during the revolution when books were scattered to Andover, Concord, and other safer locations, Harvard Hall remained the college library until 1838. Then, Gore Hall, made possible by the unrestricted bequest of Christopher Gore, was built at a cost...
Last fortnight the bank announced that it was ready to expand to the rest of the U.S. It will solicit funds and healthy eyes. (Eyes are given by bequest and arrangements with surviving relatives, or by gift from people who must lose them by surgery.) The money will be used to provide scholarships to doctors all over the U.S. who want to learn the corneal grafting technique, and to establish bank branches wherever they are needed...