Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lacking course in astronomy is only one example of many. A bequest providing for it would be most welcome, but what the University needs most of all is a large gift with no conditions attached. Many little gaps could then be filled, each of which now causes great annoyance, and yet is not sufficiently evident to catch the eye and stir the sympathies of any generously disposed graduate...
...exceed five years. The student on his part agrees to refund this money if he may ever become able, and is to forfeit his scholarship if he indulges in tobacco or becomes intoxicated. The scholars thus assisted are to be selected without regard to faith or nationality. Such a bequest to a single institution has rarely been equaled...
...rather interesting fact has come to light, explaining how Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg was led to leave her recent bequest of $220,000 to Harvard College. It seems that it had been her intention to build an observatory in Central Park, New York City, in honor of her late husband. The memorial was to be magnificently built and equipped. In talking over her project with Professor Josiah P. Cooke, head of the chemistry department, Mrs. Fogg learned that she would be unable to build, with the money she had for the purpose, an observatory as thoroughly and finely equipped...
According to yesterday's edition of the Boston Advertiser a new bequest has been made to Harvard. Mr. J. Huntington Wolcott, who died ten days ago, left twenty-five thousand dollars to the college, of which the income is to be applied to establish scholarships for worthy students; twenty-five hundred dollars to the Lawrence Scientific School, and twenty-five hundred to the Botanical Gardens...
President Eliot had heard nothing of the bequest late yesterday afternoon, but there seems no doubt that the Advertiser's account is correct...