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...January 16, the Library received the second gift, a bequest of 176 rare volumes left to the Library by the late Dr. W. S. Thayer '85, former member of the Board of Overseers. Despite its small size, this collection is of great interest, and contains a number of incunabula and several Aldine editions of the Classics. There are also some unusual items of Americana, such as the first book printed in Connecticut, the Saybrook "Confession of Faith," New London...
Perhaps the most unusual of these four gifts was the bequest of Winward Prescott '09, late assistant professor of English at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This consisted of 2,500 volumes of short stories that Professor Prescott had collected for his course on the short story at M.I.T...
Funds for the new building will be supplied from a bequest made to the University in 1931 by the will of the late Gregory Seeley Bryan '87, of Washington, Connecticut, to provide a memorial which was to bear his name. The frame house which now occupies the location will be removed, and construction will be started on April 1 in order that the new building may be ready for use at the opening of the next academic year...
Arthur O. Lovejoy, professor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, will be the second holder of the William James Lectureship established in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology by the bequest of the late Edgar Pierce. Professor Lovejoy will give a series of eight lectures on Mondays and Thursdays at the beginning of the second half-year on "The Grace Chains of Beings": the History of an Idea...
...dispensation of such funds is often a task beyond the ken of a layman. The man with a casual interest in a subject, desiring to leave a sum to the students of that subject, is not necessarily a good judge of the manner of expenditure. A sincere and equitable bequest, in short, should be drawn up in one of two ways: it should either have been gone over by an expert in the field to which it is to be devoted, or its dispensation should be left to the recipient...