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Founded through a bequest of the late Dean James Barr Ames '68 LL.B. '70, the competition is now entering its eighteenth year. The bequest provides for prizes of $300 and $200 respectively to go to the winners and runners-up of the series of arguments. Since but four clubs are eligible for the semi-finals, the first two years are occupied in selecting the best clubs of a large field by the process of elimination on the basis of point evaluation...
...went down to the latter's city, Bryn Athyn, Pa., near Philadelphia. There the Spaniard, who lives in England most of the time, stripped off his coat and near the Swedenborgian Church which Mr. Pitcairn and his two brothers are building according to their late father's bequest, made the first autogiro flight...
Oswald Garrison Villard of Manhattan, editor of The Nation, was bequeathed the residuary estate (more than $100,000) of Mrs. Harriet C. Flagg of Brookline, Mass., when she died a few years ago. He maintained that the bequest was a trust, to be contributed by him to humanitarian causes advocated both by himself and Mrs. Flagg (famine relief, laborers' welfare, Negro social advancement, free speech, printing and assemblage). Flagg relatives contested that the "trust" was too indefinite, that they were entitled to the property. Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the bequest had been made outright...
More notable in its way was another octogenarian's hospital gift last week. Chicago's Mrs. Adeline Wheeler, 88, wife of the late Charles W. Wheeler (grain), gave $2,000,000 to Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital. The gift comprised almost every dollar she had. It was her bequest. She died last week, having lived in Chicago's Congress Hotel since the 1893 World's Fair...
...each for musical education last week under the terms of the will of Music Publisher Charles H. Ditson. Beneficiaries are: Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Princeton, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Chicago Musical College, Cincinnati College of Music, Ann Arbor School of Music (University of Michigan). The terms of bequest are similar. The money may be used for one or more of these purposes outlined in the will: to maintain a chair or chairs of music, musical history, or musical esthetics; to maintain scholarships or fellowships in music; to give public performances; to do anything-musical...