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...competition for the Boott Music Prize of $100, from the bequest of Francis Boott 1831, is open to all students in Harvard University...
Death last month took John Gardner Murray, Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Bishop Murray left a will. But strangely unlike the bequest of a prince of the Church was this last testament. No hospital or needy mission gained by the primate's death. All his estate Bishop Murray left to his wife; there were no bequests to charities...
That such a large sum of money has been accumulated in such a short time, a matter of a few weeks, reflects the range of interests in which the modern university is dealing. In the case of the Columbia bequests, this tendency towards diversification is brought out in bold relief. There is a gift from the Carnegie Foundation for a School of Library Service, a gift for the study of political prognostication, a bequest for research in food nutrition, for research in sub-tropical medicine, and others of equally diversified nature...
...Mitten Plan, briefly, permits all employes to have a voice in the operation of the company, encourages them to become stockholders. The bequest, written into the will five days before the body was found, is invalid under the state law which nullifies charity bequests made within a month of the donor's demise, but his son, Dr. Arthur A. Mitten, who succeeded him as Mitten Management's president, will carry out his famed father's wishes, will create a trust, the Mitten Foundation...
Prominent among the gifts of the past year is one from the late Otto T. Bannard, Yale '76, National Chairman of the Yale Endowment Fund Committee: a fund of $540,000 for the University Library. This gift is in addition to his bequest of his residuary estate, estimated at over two millions, to the University for its general purposes. Other large contributors were the late Payne Whitney, and the late Chaunecen M. Depew...