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...half million dollars and then turned to a similar document of 250 years ago in which it was announced that the College would purchase six leather chairs, provided the treasury could afford it. Mr. Matthews then told of the real start of the University, when John Harvard's bequest of $3,900 and his library enabled the institution to get on its feet. Although in those days boys as young as twelve often came to college, the entrance requirements were far from easy. To be admitted one had to be able to read and speak Latin and Greek, to compose...
...bequest of more than one million dollars has been made to Yale University by Justus S. Hotchkiss of New Haven. Yale is made the legatee of the donator's estate. The fund which goes to the university will be divided into three equal parts, each of which will be given to one of the three departments of the University. In addition, $50,000 is left as a church fund. The late Mr. Hotchkiss was a rubber merchant...
...Cruft high tension laboratory building was finished last January, and courses in Physics and Engineering have been held there since mid-years. The new structure, located between the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and Pierce Hall, is the result of a bequest of $50,000 made by Miss Harriet Cruft for research and instruction in high voltage and high frequency electrical phenomena...
...will give a lecture on "Diet and Pellagra" in the amphitheatre of Building A, of the Medical School this afternoon at 5 o'clock. This will be the first of a series, known as the Cutter lectures on preventive medicine and hygiene, given annually under the terms of a bequest from John Clarence Cutter. The lecturers for this year are Dr. Goldberger and Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, professor of hygiene and physiological chemistry, and dean of the department of medicine and surgery of the University of Michigan. Dr. Vaughan will give three lectures on the "Phenomena of Infection" on April...
...building is the result of a bequest of $50,000 made by Miss Harriet Cruft, and is to be known as the Cruft Memorial Laboratory. Miss Cruft has also given an additional sum to be used in the purchasing of equipment...