Word: bequestioned
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...Bunker Hill. He was about thirty years of age when he died, and he left property in England. The date of his death is the 54th day of September, 1638. Although he left one-half of his estate to the college, the University only received one-half of the bequest, with the library. This library consisted of 302 volumes on various subjects and showed the taste and education of its owner, but in 1764 a large fire burnt all these volumes but one, which fortunately happened to be in the hands of some outside party. That John Harvard...
...University of Vermont has received a bequest of $110,000. A handsome gymnasium is to be erected...
...amount of money, by the Ellis bequest, which will eventually revert to the university for the endowment of professorships in the Medical School, after the subtraction of the bequest for scholarships, is estimated...
Cincinnati University has received a provisional bequest of property yielding an income of $15,000 per year from the estate of Joseph Longworth...
...liberal bequest to Dartmouth made by Julius Hallgarten, the banker of this city, has a bit of history contected with it, says the Concord (N. H.) Monitor. He was a Jew, and much wonder has been expressed that he should remember the New England College. A few years ago the Rev. Henry E. Parker, D. D., of Dartmouth, visited Bermuda, and while there met Mr. Hallgarten. The New Yorker was favorably impressed with his new acquaintance, and their intimacy was continued by a visit from the banker at Professor Parker's beautiful Hanover home. Out of this friendship and admiration...