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President Eliot has been selected by the Faculty of Northwestern University to deliver the N. W. Harris course of six lectures at that University this spring, from April 9 to 14 inclusive. This course was founded a little over a year ago from a bequest of Mr. Norman W. Harris, one of the foremost bankers of Chicago, and a trustee of Northwestern University, with the purpose "to stimulate scientific research of the highest type and bring the results before the students and friends of Northwestern University, and, through them, to all the world." By scientific research, is meant "scholarly investigation...
...Bequest and other Stories," by Mark Twain...
From the estate of the late E. M. Barringer the final payment of $4,758.86, on account of his bequest for the establishment of the Edward M. Barringer Scholarships in the Medical School...
...will of Mrs. Amy R. Sheldon, widow of Frederick Sheldon '42, of New York and Newport, which was filed for probate Thursday afternoon in Newport, two gifts to the University are provided for, amounting in the aggregate to about $800,000. The first bequest, in cash and securities, is of $300,000 for the remodelling and enlarging of Gore Hall. If, however, the Corporation does not deem it advisable to use the money for that purpose, it may be devoted to other ends...
...amount of about $500,000 is bequeathed for the purpose of establishing a number of travelling scholarships. This bequest will be called the Frederick Sheldon Fund. These gifts to the University are from that part of Mrs. Sheldon's estate which came to her from her husband, and are, as she mentions in her will, to be considered as gifts from...