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Divinity School officials expressed confidence last night that they will raise $675,000 within the next three months in order to retain the $250,000 contingent bequest of the late Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont...
...School of Education faces an annual budget slash of $63,000 beginning next year when a $300,000 bequest expires in June, Dean Francis Keppel '38 announced yesterday...
...there died in a West England village a clergyman named Thomas Robert Malthus, whose bequest to mankind was a somber prophecy that the human race faced strangulation by graphs and curves. The world's population would threaten to outgrow its supply of food, said Malthus, whereupon pestilence, famine and war would follow. During the following century, the world's population did increase, from one billion to more than two billion, but it was amply taken care of by the development of new foods from new lands, by more intensive cultivation...
...Fountain of the Tritons, next to the Art Institute itself. By the early '30s, city planners had begun losing their enthusiasm for heroic busts and bronzes, and the Art Institute took the precaution of getting a court to rule that "monuments" in the context of Ferguson's bequest could also mean "buildings." This year the Art Institute leaned on the old court ruling and announced that it would use the Ferguson fund accumulations to finance a new Art Institute office building. This, explained the Institute, would free some 65,000 sq. ft. in the Institute's cluttered...
...bequest, from the will of Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, will be transferred to the Union Theological Seminary if the conditions are not met before the deadline...