Word: bequestioned
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Columbia college recently received a bequest of $100,000 from C. M. Da Costa to form a new scholarship...
...list of what seemed to us the University's most pressing needs. One of the most prominent of these was that of a new library reading-room. In behalf of this object we wish to say a word thus early to the authorities who will dispose of the bequest just announced. To no other purpose could the money be so advantageously given. Moreover, it was Mr. Conant's wish, we understand, that a building bearing his name be put up with this money...
...sincerely hope, then, that the bequest be used in building a new library, to be named according to Mr. Conant's desire, Such a course would fulfill the last wishes of a generous benefactor. It would supply the need now the most urgent of all felt alike by instructor and student...
Unless some unforeseen circumstances arise, Harvard will very likely receive another bequest-this time from the generous gift of the late Mr. Fayerweather. We understand that the legacy for Harvard is not restricted by many conditions, but may be applied for almost any special object which the authorities may think proper. It will not be hard to find uses for the money; on the contrary, the difficulty will be to decide, among so many needs, which is the most pressing...
...lacking course in astronomy is only one example of many. A bequest providing for it would be most welcome, but what the University needs most of all is a large gift with no conditions attached. Many little gaps could then be filled, each of which now causes great annoyance, and yet is not sufficiently evident to catch the eye and stir the sympathies of any generously disposed graduate...