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Probably the largest part of this bequest will be spent in research work, in which the Cancer Commission has been particularly successful. Last year the discover by Professor William Duane '93 to be use of newly-found varities of X-rays in the treatment of cancer was considered one the most important steps her made in the history of the investigation of cancer...
...Library (English), Rooms L and M, the Winsor Memorial Rooms, contain the Map Collection. Rooms R and S contain the great collection of theatrical literature and other material, including portraits, playbills, and autographs given to the Library by Mr. Robert Gould Shaw '69, of Boston, and enlarged by the bequest of Evert J. Wendell...
...collegiate America and England, called attention to the fact that while America is well represented in the English universities, the number of Englishmen studying here is decidedly smaller. The explanation of this condition is simply the greater effort on the part of the English to attract Americans--the Rhodes bequest, for example...
...Ingersoll lectureship was established in 1894, under the will of Caroline Haskell Ingersoll of Keene, N. H., to provide for one lecture each year at the University on the subject of Immortality. According to the terms of the bequest, the choice of lecturers is not confined to any one religious denomination...
...Paine of Cambridge, who died last summer, the University has received a fund of over $61,000 to make it possible for two students of music each year to engage in travel and study, and accordingly the University has established two travelling fellowships with stipends of $1400 each. The bequest was left in memory of Mrs. Paine's husband, John Knowles Paine, who was professor of music at the University from 1875 to 1905, and whose name the concert hall in the Music Building already bears...