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...House Dean plan will be financed by a $1,000,000 bequest from the estate of Allston Burr '89 when it goes into operation next fall, Provost Buck announced yesterday. Most of the money had originally been slated for construction of a new Varsity Club, now indefinitely postponed...
When Janet Bender, school librarian for the town of Stroudsburg, Pa. (pop. 6,300), first heard of the strange bequest, she scarcely knew which way to turn. Where ever would she get hold of ten copies of Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, and What I Saw There-the 19th century's gruesome lost-weekend tract? Unless she did, her two school libraries might never be able to profit by the $25,000 left in trust by the eccentric old ex-schoolteacher, Samuel Schoonover. An ardent, lifetime Prohibitionist, Schoonover had stated, in effect, in his will: no Ten Nights...
...From the Bequest of George Andrew Reisner Class of 1889 Professor of Egyptology...
...German-held segment of the Argonne. Last week four of the surviving men - Patrick J. Carroll, N.Y., Peter Finucane, The Bronx, Richard Foy, N.J. and John Duffy, Brooklyn - plus his old orderly, Samuel Silverstein, Camp Gordon, Ga., learned that Judge Patterson had left each of them a token bequest...
...fact, the University Treasurer has yet to purchase a shell. Robert F. Herrick '90, crew captain in 1889, was the greatest contributor to Crimson crews while he lived, and when he died in 1942 he left a substantial bequest to the H.A.A. for crew...