Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with an income of $225, to Albert David Brewer, A. B. (Iowa College '95); the David Williams Cheever Scholarship, with an income of $200, to Howard Bigelow Jackson, A. B., '97, Concord, N. H.; the Charles B. Porter Scholarship, with an income of $200, founded in 1897 from the bequest of William L. Chase, to Edward Allen Locke, B. P., A. M., Brown University '96, Whitman, Mass...
...library has just received a valuable addition by the bequest of the manuscript and letter books of Charles Sumner. The gift of 171 volumes contains letters received by Charles Sumner between 1830 and 1873, thus covering his term in Congress and the period of the slavery agitations...
Another large bequest which is of great interest to the University is that of Miss Belinda Randall who left a large sum of money to be used for charitable purposes. Her executors, F. V. Balch '59 and William Minot '68, have placed $10,000 at the disposal of the Corporation for the building of a new dining hall, and further $10,000 toward the Phillips Brooks House, and a liberal endowment to Radcliffe...
Another important bequest to Harvard is that of Alexander Wheelock Thayer '43, who establishes an endowment fund of $30,000 to be used in assisting worthy undergraduates. In awarding this assistance preference is to be given to young men bearing the name of Thayer...
...gift has been made to the University of three Fellowships amounting to $300 each, from the Harold Whiting bequest of $20,000. They will be available during...