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...former living room and a balcony, with a connecting foyer and stairway. In these rooms the paintings and other works of art of the collection will be placed in an informal manner, corresponding to the Fransworth Room in Widener Library. This is in accordance with the terms of the bequest, by which Mrs. Naumberg requested that as little as possible of the usual museum atmosphere be created. The Museum will thus be provided with a quiet restful place where students may study, read, and discuss Art at their leisure. The many details that enter into the construction...
...knew there was a possibility of my family not gaining the bequest and so I did not build greatly on the expectation. . . . But at the same time it seems incredible that the bequest can be set aside...
...have failed for various reasons, and repeated reorganizations have not brought the best results. It is almost certain that the University would take the really decisive stop of transforming the entire institution into a graduate school at the present time were it not for the McKay bequest with its provision that the "instruction provided be kept accessible to students who have had not other opportunities of previous education than those which the free public schools afford". In order to conform to the will undergraduates must obviously be admitted. The school, moreover, derives the greater part of its income from this...
Seen in the light of the changed policy of the Engineering School the rule which will bar its undergraduates from the House Plan is justified. It is unfortunate that the provisions of the McKay bequest, which have really become outmoded, can not be set aside. The attitude which the University is taking, however, is one which should provide for the best despite an unfortunate arrangement...
...order to qualify for a bequest of $4,000,000 given to the University last May by George Artemas Ward, great grandson of the Revolutionary general. Leonard Crunell, Chicago sculptor, has been commissioned to design and execute a statue of the first Artemas Ward to be placed in a new circle at the junction of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues in Washington, D.C. The terms of the bequest provide that after the University has fittingly honored the great general by erecting memorials, and maintaining the old Ward-homestead which is located in Shrewsbury, where the general lived and died, the remaining...