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...addition to the endowment of the School of Journalism of Columbia University, the late Joseph Pulitzer provided for the establishment of a number of prizes. Under the provisions of the bequest three prizes, one of $1000 and two of $500 will be awarded for the best history of the services rendered to the public by the American press during the year 1924, provided always that the essays received are deemed of sufficient merit to justify an award. Manuscripts sent in for competition must reach the hands of the Secretary of Columbia University not later than February...
...Baker gift is exceeded only by the Gordon McKay funds, given to the University by the will of Gordon McKay in 1903. In the latter bequest the University only receives at present the income, but when the last annuitant dies, the University will receive the principal as well. It is estimated that the total of all the payments will amount...
...that their names not be made public until a later date. Of this $2,500,000, $750,000 is an appropriation made by the Harvard Corporation from the unrestricted funds left to the University by the late Paul C. Keith. The Corporation believed that no better use of this bequest could be made than to devote a part of it to needs of the Chemical Department. In the judgment of the Corporation, these were the primary needs of the University...
...trustees of the Morgan Library, recently bequeathed to the public by John P. Morgan (TIME, Feb. 25), have been prompt to take advantage of their power under the bequest, of exhibiting the contents of the collection...
...student. The financial status of the student receiving aid is in no way to be a consideration. Said the donor: "I feel persuaded that by helping one such exceptional student, I might in reality be helping, through the student's possible success, a greater number than if my bequest were large enough to give like assistance to the ninety-and-nine of less outstanding ability...