Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Paul Dudley, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court left a bequest in 1750 of Pound23 to be used in giving a series of lectures on religious subjects. The lectures were given each year from 1753-1857. They were then discontinued till four years...
Chicago University has recently received a bequest of $250,000 from Mrs. Joseph Reynolds, in compliance with the wishes of her late husband. It is also reported that the estate of William B. Ogden will net $500,000 to the university, as his heirs are practically united in designating the university as the best beneficiary of the still undistributed sum left by him for philanthropic purposes...
...Advocate in its last number has touched upon a timely subject in connection with the probable disposition of the Fogg bequest, which was given with a view of providing the University with a suitable Museum of Fine Arts. We are thoroughly in sympathy with the writer of the article. However admirable is the spirit which prompted the head of the Fine Arts Department to recommend a postponement of the erection of the proposed building, we cannot overlook certain reasons which seem to us to outweigh his objections. To wait fifteen or twenty years until the original sum has increased...
...will be interesting to those who do not know the history of these Dudleian lectures to state briefly the conditions upon which they were founded. In 1750 Paul Dudley, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court made a bequest of $23 to be used in giving a series of four lectures on religious subjects, one lecture to be given each year. Justice Dudley was a man much interested in matters of theology and his desire in founding this course of lectures was to afford a means for broad and comprehensive treatment of what seemed to him important theological questions...
...largest amount received is from George Draper Esq., in the form of an unrestricted bequest of about $48,000, one-third the residue of his estate. Next to this comes the gift from the Elizabeth Fogg estate, of $10,374 additional, for building and maintaining the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum. Through Alexander Agassiz Esq., $5.000 has been received from Maj. Theodore K. Gibbs, to establish the Virginia Barret Gibbs scholarship fund in connection with the Museum of Comparative Zoology. From Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $2,500 additional has been received for the account of the Draper Memorial...