Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Boston Herald of yesterday prints some facts relative to the bequest left by Mr. Conant to the University. On Monday Mr. Henry Eveleth Hill, executor of the will of the late Edwin Conant, under which Harvard College is the residuary legatee, had a consultation with President Eliot, at Cambridge, over the gift. Mr. Conant expressed a preference to have his gift used in the construction of some needed building. and such a use will be made of the $60,000 to $80,000 which will be available...
...University of Vermont has received a bequest of $50,000 to found a professorship of natural and technic sciences...
Boston University has received a bequest of $30,000, one half of the interest of which will be devoted to educating women...
Princeton has lately received a bequest of $10,000 to be used in bringing prominent men to the college to lecture...
Princeton has lately received a bequest of $10,000 to be used in bringing prominent men to the college to lecture...