Word: bequestioned
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...died in Boston's Beth Israel Hospital last year, she left a written statement donating her body "in the interests of medical science" to Dartmouth or Harvard Medical School. But Novelist Metalious' daughter said no.And since in Massachusetts, as in about half of the 50 states, a bequest of one's own body is not legally binding, the daughter's objection prevailed. Even without it, Dartmouth would have lost out for another reason: like most states, Massachusetts forbids shipment of bodies for dissection across its borders, and Dartmouth is in New Hampshire...
Girard (actually a school rather than a college) bars Negroes because of the seemingly unbreakable will of Founder Stephen Girard. When he died in 1831, reputedly the nation's richest man, Shipping Tycoon Girard added a segregation clause to his $6,000,000 bequest on the then plausible theory that quality education would suffer if the sons of slaves were mixed with the sons of whites. Agreeing at the time, the city accepted the money, and the state later ran the school with public trustees...
Talisman. Picassos amount to nearly half the bequest; they are particularly welcome, for the gift expands the chameleon career of this master, who has painted through many styles. Thannhauser's Picassos stretch from a 1960 oil of symbolic doves back to a small work of 1898, when the artist still signed his name P. Ruiz Picasso. Next is Picasso's first oil done in Paris, Le Moulin de la Galette, a muted 1900 Lautrecian cabaretscape, gaslit with top hats as sleek and glassy as carafes of absinthe. Included, almost as a talisman, is the 1905 painting...
...fellowships were established at Harvard in 1937 by the wife of the late Lucius W. Nieman, founder of the Milwaukee Journal. The bequest was made "to educate persons deemed especially qualified for journalism and to promote the standards of journalism in the United States...
According to Phillip M. Cronin '53, an representing the College, Miss original bequest to the College partially out of gratitude for an degree awarded to her brother, late John E. Shea. Shea had been of the stacks in Widener thirty years...