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...chairs are financed from the $9 million bequest of Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. '00, who died early last year. Harvard professors were named to four of the chairs yesterday. Two scientists from outside the University will be chosen this year to fill the other two posts in Chemistry and Biochemistry...
While he was alive, Mallinckrodt gave the University an additional $4 million in gifts. His final bequest will total several million dollars more when the additional parts of his estate left to Harvard are liquidated. James R. Reynolds, assistant to the president for Development, said yesterday the additional funds could make Mallinckrodt the University's most generous benefactor...
...plan that resulted in Randolph Hall, a "perhaps premature attempt to introduce what is now called the 'House Plan'," according to Coolidge's brother. Randolph Hall is now a part of Adams House, which has a room memorializing him. The Coolidge Professorship of Modern History was founded by his bequest...
Although he boggled at the unusual bequest, Superior Court Probate Judge Robert L. Myers of Phoenix ruled that the will was legitimate, ordered a hearing to find out whether anyone could properly qualify to carry out Kidd's wish. Last week, as the trial got under way in Phoenix, it was apparent that there was no lack of soul-searchers eager to undertake the task. No fewer than 17 organizations and 78 individuals had already put up the $15 filing fee and were prepared to stake their claims. Among them...
...provides the best answer, Richard C. Spurney, a Roman Catholic philosophy instructor at Mount San Antonio junior college near Los Angeles, plans to submit six volumes of theological research containing 50 proofs of the soul's existence from such thinkers as Augustine and Aquinas. Also interested in the bequest is the American Society for Psychical Research, Inc., whose president is Psychologist Gardner Murphy, a professor at Kansas' Menninger Foundation. Murphy, who believes that the soul, if it exists, is "probably not tangible," hopes to use the money for research into the possibility of survival in the beyond...