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Phillips Exeter Academy has received a bequest of $40,000 from the will of the late Francis Parker of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/11/1886 | See Source »

...CRIMSON'S forty odd exchanges, thirty-two have printed the statement about that facitious bequest of $2,000,000 to Harvard; and still they come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/28/1885 | See Source »

...meet the emergencies of the present time. Hence the excellent facilities furnished by its well-appointed chemical and physical laboratories - facilities which will be greatly increased when there shall have been paid into its treasury - and it is confidently expected that this will soon be done - the munificent 'Wilson bequest' of one hundred thousand dollars to be appropriated to the building up of the department of the physical sciences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown University. | 10/16/1885 | See Source »

...appraised at $1,700,000 to Boston University. On account of the great fire and shrinkage in value, and other unfortunate circumstances, the university will realize less than $700,000 from this magniflcent be quest. Amasa Stone gave $600,000 to Adelbert College by direct gift and by bequest. W. W. Corcoran gave $170,000 to Colombian University in money and land. Benjamin Bussey gave real estate worth $500,000 to Harvard University. Samuel Williston, William J. Walker, and Samuel A. Hitchcock gave between $100,000 and $200,000 each to Amherst College. Whitmer Phoenix gave the bulk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rich Men and Colleges. | 6/6/1885 | See Source »

...chapel and new observatory are being erected at the University of Virginia. The university has just received a bequest of $470,000 from Mr. Austin of Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/28/1885 | See Source »

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