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...bequest from the estate of the late Gertrude B. Woods which will provide a fellowship with a stipend of $1000 annually in the Department of Philosophy, given in memory of the late Professor James H. Woods '87, for thirty years a member of that Department has been received by the University...
This accession is the most important one to come since the bequest of Albert Holden's important collection to the Museum in 1913. Much of the material has not been represented previously in the University's collection...
Princeton, N. J., March 15--Though Harvard, Yale, and Columbia have all refused a bequest of $25,000 each for lectures on women in public affairs, Princeton still has half that amount on its hands because it agreed to accept the gift. The grant was made in the will of the late Albert E. Pillsbury, former attorney-general of Massachusetts, who believed "that the modern feminist movement tends to take woman out of the home and put her into politics government, or business, and that this has already begun to impair the family as the basis of civilization...
...embarrassed officials stated that they will have nothing to say about disposition of the bequest until "further investigations, consultations, etc. are completed." Wags compared the University to a proud but modest hen, couched on a whole nestful of golden eggs, firmly discouraging the query: "How come...
...Hersey told the history of the Inn, "The Queen's Head," in Southwark, London, which John Harvard inherited from his mother and sold, along with other property, to obtain the money to go to America and make his bequest...