Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard has just received a bequest of $8000 by the will of C. L. B. Whitney to found the "Mary L. Whitney" scholarships. This will be increased later...
...connection with the Princeton Theological Seminary. It is to contain 77 rooms, and will cost $80,000. The unique features of the building will be a common parlor and reception room on the first floor for the use of the students. Its erection was made possible by the bequest by Mrs. Robert L. Stuart of New York...
...endowment of the Academy has received no additions, and the whole amount of its founders gifts and bequest, with all subsequent additions now figures $393,-410.41. Of this $46,129.50 was subscribed for the erection of the present recitation building, and $43,978.43 belongs to the Sibley fund, one-half the income of which is applied at present to the fund's increase...
Harvard has received still another bequest. By the will of the late C. M. Jones of Boston, Harvard College is bequeathed $6,000 for a scholarship in any part of the university agreeable to the Faculty...
...bequest to Harvard from the late Mr. Jones of Boston, it will be seen that while the gift was to be used for a scholarship fund, the faculty was yet left to determine to which part of the university the proceeds of the fund should go. Thus the gift was made, in a way, perfectly freely, and the use of it was left to the discretion of the faculty. This is the spirit in which nearly all bequests to Harvard should be made. No one can tell so well as the faculty what the greatest needs of the university...