Word: bequestioned
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...with a ground area of three hundred square feet, which is to be the observatory of the party; the scarcity of wood and carpenters in Peru makes it prudent to build this here. The class of work which the expedition will undertake comes under the terms of the Boyden bequest. The cost of the work upon the Stella spectra is sustained by the Draper Memorial Fund...
...will of the late John Guy Vassar, of Philadelphia, Vassar college receives a bequest...
DePauw University, Indiana, has received a bequest which will amount to two million dollars...
...June number of the Atlantic Monthly is as bright and interesting as usual. The serial stories, "Yone Santo" and "The Despot of Broomsedge Cove" are continued, and a new one, "Miser Farrell's Bequest," by J. P. Quincy, is begun. "To Cawdor Castle and Culloden Moor," by J. C. R. Dorr, is a vivid description of that interesting place. Theodore Child contributes "The Literary Career in France," a paper which is well worth reading. "The Discovery of the Rocky Mountains." by Francis Parkman, is not only instructive but possesses the charm of the other writings of that able historian. Perhaps...
...fund of Harvard College will receive a large addition by the will of the late J. Sumner Wheeler of Framingham, Mass. Mr. Wheeler graduated at Harvard in the class of 1826, and at the time of his death was president of the Framingham National Bank. The amount of the bequest will be $25,000 if the entire estate amounts to $250,000, and $50,000 if the whole estate is $300,000. The use of the income is not restricted by the will, but is left to the discretion of the president and fellows, though by a codicil added five...