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Yesterday's CRIMSON article reporting a $1,093,835 bequest to Radcliffe College was erroneous. The money was given for the College's endowment and not, as the article suggested, to the fund for Radcliffe's planned graduate quadrangle. As endowment, it cannot be used to finance the graduate quadrangle, $843,835 was donated to establish the John F. and Ethel P. Moors Fund for unrestricted endowment, and $250,000 to form the Ethel Paine Moors Endowment Fund...
...bequest was received from the estate of John Farwell Moors, who died in 1953 at the age of 93. Moors is Radcliffe's largest single donor. His previous gifts include $700,707 towards Moors Hall, $5,000 towards Holmes Hall, and $5,000 for unrestricted endowment. A typographical error in yesterday's paper stated that Moors had given five million dollars for unrestricted endowment...
...bequest, $843,385 was given for unrestricted endowment and $250,000 to form the Ethel Paine Moors endowment fund. The majority of the gift seems sure of going toward the much desired center...
...many state courts have held that a man cannot use his will to dispose of his entire remains. If a relative objected, no medical school would risk public disapproval by seeking to enforce such a will. In nine states,* however, laws have been passed specifically permitting these bequests. Georgia School of Medicine has received only one body in five years as a result of this provision. But in California the idea has had wider appeal, and the state's medical schools now receive as many as 200 bodies a year by bequest...
...claim that the budget will not stand an extra strain. Or, if he favors a new plan, he will try to scrape up the money somehow. While Provost Buck was urging the Bender Plan on the Faculty, he was also arranging for $1,000,000 from the Allston Burr bequest to finance the program. It was hard for even the most dubious to argue against a profferred million dollars...