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...Gift of the week: $3,950,000 left to educational, cultural and civic organizations by Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, widow of the late J. P. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lament, longtime board chairman of Morgan's banking house. Largest slice of the bequest ($2,950,000) went to women's colleges because "women's education is just as important for our country as men's education." Items: to Smith College, $1,200,000 as a "token of my special indebtedness for four happy and stimulating years there"; to Barnard College, $500,000 for being...
...very heart of the campus" while the dean of the school. Andrew Fleming West favored a distant location and an aloof conception for his school. Eventually west favored a distant location and au aloof conception for his school. Eventually West aided by an offer of a $4 million bequest for his "separate" Graduate college, swung most Princeton alumni to his side and Wilson reassigned taking as consolation the post of President of the United States...
...bequest of Sylia A. G. H. Wilks is the largest gift last year...
Funds for the construction of the building came from interest on a 17 million dollar bequest left to the University in 1902 by Gordon McKay, an engineer-turned-inventor who accumulated a tremendous fortune from the royalties on a shoo-making machine he designed...
...keeping with the terms of the bequest, great emphasis will be given to mechanical engineering, particularly to relatively undeveloped phases of the field, such as problems of turbulent flow and the nature of matter...