Word: bequestioned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...decision of the court, Cornell has just lost the bequest of $1,500,000 which the wife of Prof. Fiske made. This decision is based on the fact that the law prohibits Cornell from holding an endowment of more than...
Yale has just received a bequest of $26,000, of which some $15,000 is to go into the fund for general expenses. Such a bequest is just what is needed here...
...consequence of a bequest left some time since by a member of the Hastings family, the corporation on Friday last voted to build a new dormitory to be called Hastings Hall. The bequest was made some time since, but on account of some annuities has not been available until recently. Negotiations have already been opened with architects for the construction of the new dormitory, and it is expected to be a handsome building. It is estimated that the cost will be $200,000. Hastings Hall will be situated on that part of Holmes Field adjoining North Avenue, near where...
...deficient and ill-arranged. The library authorities have such a scheme in consideration, but it clearly would be poor policy to commence the undertaking before they have enough money to carry it through. The proper place, it seems to me, to start the sentiment that is the kind of bequest most needed just now, is right here among the undergraduates...
...undergraduates alone it was $36,000; to members of the graduate department, $11,000; and to the professional schools, $6,000; making a total of assistance to students of the University of more than $53,000. Next year this enormous sum will be increased $13,000 by the munificent bequest of Mr. Price Greenleaf. Fully to estimate the position of the poor man at Harvard, we should take into account also, the great opportunities for earning money through private tuition, through innumerable avenues of trade, and through writing for the public press. A large number of correspondents tell of money...