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...years of supremacy in the U. S. A commission of experts was sent last autumn to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity in Berlin, lighting of tanks in London. Mr. Rosenwald's industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum of Peaceful Arts (TIME, April 12): Mr. Towne had been interested in such a museum by Dr. George F. Kunz, mineralogist and gem expert, an honorary fellow of the American Museum of Natural History...
...will to be filed. If alive he gave such vast sums to God, what would he not give dead? The Will made answer: "Following the example of my dear father, and believing it wiser to give liberally during my life to religious and charitable objects, I make no bequest of that character...
During the 290 years of its existence Harvard has stood a tower of conservative liberalism. Liberalism in thought education, politics, religion. Not for nothing was the Reverend John Harvard, whose bequest in 1638 of his library and half his estate won him, the posthumous Loner of godfather to the infant school a nonconformist and an emigrant from the intolerance of the homeland. Battles there were, to be sure, stern doctrinary struggles such as the attempt under the presidency of the Reveread Increase Mather to bind down the college with the dour tenets of Calvinism. But liberalism always triumphed somehow...
With the recent bequest to the University of $2,000,000 in memory of General Artemas Ward of the class of 1748, the income to be applied among other things "to establish his reputation, too long neglected as a devoted and faithful friend of his country", one more soldier of the Revolution will be rescued from the limbo of almost forgotten generals whose chief glory seems to exist, according to the popular mind, in a solitary monument on some old battlefield, or in the musty texts of arid histories and encyclopedias...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry is uniquely designed to stimulate culture. By the terms of Mr. Still man's bequest, the incumbent of the chair must be a man of international reputation, whom Harvard in all probability could not otherwise secure. Under the broad definition of poetry the new professorship makes provision for men of ability in the cultural arts of music, painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as in the rhythms of language. Professor Murray of Oxford, an authority on the Greek drama, is of the type which the chair was designed to attract...