Word: bequestioned
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...endowing a chair of Poetry, Mr. C. Chauncey Stillman has made a bequest whose worth and importance can not be too highly valued. The establishment of such a professorship is a notable contribution to the intellectual and spiritual life of the University, for the incumbents of the Chair will doubtless be men whom Harvard heretofore could not afford to secure and for whom there has been no provision in the academic system. It is unlikely that if Mr. Stillman had not had the imagination, as well as the generosity, to create such a foundation, no provision for just such...
...will of Miss Amy Lowell, filed yesterday in the Probate Court, was found to contain among other provisions a bequest to the University of her entire personal library. Besides a number of other literary treasures, the library is expected to include Miss Lowell's unequaled collection of Keatsiana. Keats was the subject of much study on the part of Miss Lowell and the wealth of material which she had gathered on his life and works is not to be rivalled by that of any other collector...
...University received the Milton legacy last spring. Since then a committee has been considering the various propositions for research from members of the faculty, to determine which were most deserving of immediate assistance. This use to which the new bequest has been put was provided for by a subsidiary clause in the will of the late Mr. Milton...
Rhodes wrote his will when he was 22. All that he had, he left to forward his "highest purpose," empire-building. One bequest designated that 176 selected scholars from the colonies and the U. S., and 5 from Germany should attend Oxford for three years each. Colonials and Americans were to receive £300 apiece per annum; the Germans, being nearer England, would get £250 each. Rhodes included the Americans because he believed there was an advantage to mankind in the union of English speaking peoples, to be gained "without . . . withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land...
...Testator, one Ralph Neville, was the son of a distinguished judge. In a codicil to his will, he said: "I forgive all debts owing to me." Certain companies in which he owned bonds contended that this constituted a cancellation of his investment and a bequest to these companies...