Word: bequestioned
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Brown University has just received a bequest...
...Parker and Francis J. Parker, executors of the late Chief Justice Joel Parker, have notified the trustees of Dartmouth College of their readiness to pay to the college the sum of $50,000 as the first instalment of Judge Parker's bequest for the establishment of a law department in the institution...
...rumor about a new dormitory for Harvard, which has been published in many papers, is entirely without foundation. It owes its origin to the Hastings bequest, which was made several years ago, with the stipulation that not more than $250,000 of that bequest should be expended on some new building. That building is not necessarily to be a dormitory, and morever the funds from the bequest will not be available for some time to come...
...Palmer, the author of the "Folk-Etymology," has undertaken the editorship of the "Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases Adopted into English," for the preparation of which the late Mr. Stanford left a bequest of $25,000 to the University of Oxford...
...total amount of gifts for immediate use received during the year was $157,096.68. This does not include the recently received bequest of $100,000 from the estate of the late Geo. B. Dorr of Boston, which has come into possession of the college during the academic year now current...