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Thus it was that many of the Puritans who founded the Massachusetts colonies had gone, not only to Cambridge, but to Emmanuel College in particular. And having seen the evils of prescribed religious exercises, John Harvard omitted any such prescription in the bequest upon which Harvard College was founded. The alarm which many of the colonists felt at the thought of this "godless university" resulted in the foundation of Yale, intended to pour forth a stream of "untainted Calvinists". Since that time, according to a visiting Englishman of the nineteenth century, Yale men have always been horrified by the irreverence...
...newspaper yesterday, at least two such cases offered news for Sunday readers. The first was of a Marblehead resident whose will provided a fund, the income from which should be divided annually among the fathers of twins born in the town during that year. The other was the bequest of a wealthy New York woman, whose parting gift to the world stated her candid opinion of it. Her fortune goes to the S. P. C. A., which is to build a palatial hospital for invalid animals, not in spacious grounds. In the hallway a statue of the donor will...
...Mills, who died in October, 1921, made his bequest in memory of his wife, for the establishment at the University of the Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund, the income "to be devoted to the investigation of the origin and cure of cancer". The money will be applied to the support of important research work being carried on for this purpose by the Harvard Cancer Commission in the new John Collins Warren laboratory, opened last spring adjoining the Huntington Memorial Hospital. This bequest is expected to make possible a much more thorough and detailed investigation of the constitutional effects of radiation...
...fund has also been received by the University by the bequest of the late Miss Leslie Walton Walker of Boston, to establish four new scholarships at the Harvard Medical School "for the benefit of four needy and deserving students...
...Financial Library now being started in the Business School is one of the few of its kind possessed by an educational institution. Princeton received a bequest of a large library from a business man some years ago but this has not been augmented since. Yale has also recently begun to collect this sort of material...