Word: bequested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last thing James Bryant Conant wanted at Harvard was a school of journalism. A chemist at heart, Conant wrote his speeches in a manner designed to keep a reporter from finding any headlines in it. Consequently, the windfall bequest left to Harvard in 1936 by Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of The Milwaukee Journal, came as a complete surprise to Harvard's President...
Agnes Nieman's bequest gave Harvard's President and Fellows a virtual carte blanche in devising their own program to utilize the funds...
Funds for construction were provided by the Tozzer family, the Francis Boyer bequest and the Program for Science in Harvard College...
...money drive will skew a school's giving position way out of line," Peebles said. "A large bequest or gift in a single year will make you look great for that year but lousy the next...
...trust funds, the Stoughton Bequest of 1701, did not disperse any scholarship aid until 1923, when the land donated by William Stoughton was sold. However, since at least 1840, the official register has made no mention of aid to Indian students in the Stoughton trust...