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...Smith's bequest provides funds for yearly scholarship awards for use at any schools in the University, providing that the recipient received his secondary public school training in the Rhode Island metropolis...
...Charles and Julia Henry Fund Fellowships were established by the bequest of Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in the earnest hope and desire of cementing the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States." They were first awarded...
...Reisner bequest will fill out Harvard's haphazard collection of detective stories, started by such mystery-loving professors as the late George Lyman Kittredge. History-conscious Harvard keeps them for research purposes, buys a half dozen new titles every year because they reflect "part of the American scene." It 'makes no attempt to circulate them widely. Says Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf uneasily: "We are a research library, and I should think that anyone who wanted a detective story would go to some other library...
Smithson died in 1829; his nephew died childless in 1835. The U.S. got the money ($508,318.46 in gold sovereigns), and finally in 1846 set up the Institution. The bequest was large for those days, and with better luck or backing, the Smithsonian might have become the nation's scientific center. But it got no heavy support from the Government or anyone else. For the current fiscal year the Government appropriated $1,452,512 and most of this was earmarked for nonscientific custodial work...
Participation in the competition is voluntary, but practically all new students enter it. Monetary prizes are awarded to the winning club. These prizes come from from the bequest of Mrs. James Barr Ames, for whom the competition is named. Clubs are usually informally organized and are named after famous jurists such as Holmes and Brandeis...