Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thousand, four hundred volumes and 6,700 pamphlets were added to the Yale library last year. The largest contribution ever made to the library was a recent bequest of $15,000 from Mrs. Azariah Eldridge...
During the past year Yale has received by gift $291, 595 and by bequest $154,000, besides Vanderbilt Hall, on which over $850,000 has already been expended...
...interesting to note the change of the official name to Radcliffe College. Investigations which have recently been made, revealed the fact that the first woman who ever gave money to Harvard was, by her maiden name, Anne Radcliffe. Her bequest of L100 was made in the year 1640; and it seemed desirable to Mrs. Agassiz, the president of the present society, that a college for the education of women should remember, in the days of its prosperity, the first woman who showed an active interest in educational institutions...
...result of a recent bequest the Chicago University is to receive $500,000 from W. B. Ogden. Mr. Ogden was the first mayor of Chicago...
...announced in the morning papers yesterday that another bequest had been made to Harvard by a Massachusetts merchant. The first mention of the fact was made at the dinner of the Harvard Club of Washington, Tuesday night, where it naturally created a great sensation. The amount of the bequest was stated as from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 dollars and the terms as absolutely unrestricted. The entire sum, was to be used as the authorities desired. Nobody at the dinner except the man who made the statement knew anything about the giver of this money and nobody here...