Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fulfillment of the terms of the will of the late Edward Austin, the President and Fellows of Harvard College have voted that, until they shall give further orders, $2,000 shall be assigned yearly from the income of his bequest of $500,000 to establish eight scholarship, each with an annual value of $250, to be awarded for one year to superintendents of schools, and to teachers in secondary schools and in colleges, who have been recently in service and intend to return to service. These scholarships are available for the academic year 1899-1900. Applications therefor should be made...
...will of Dr. Calvin Ellis '46, which has been held in abeyance since his death in 1883 and has been recently probated, the University receives a bequest of about $140,000. First, a fund of $50,000 is created, the income of which is to pay the tuition, cost of text books, room rent and reasonable board of such descendants of David and Beulah Ellis, and John and Hannah Ellis as are students in Harvard College. Any remaining income is to be used for the general purposes of the College. In another paragraph of the will, the residue...
Brown University has received a bequest of $40,000 on the condition that it is to be spent on the erection of a memorial arch at one of the campus entrances...
...will of the late Henry L. Pierce, ex-mayor of Boston, Radcliffe College received a bequest of $20,000, which the executors have just paid over. The sum is to be held as a permanent fund...
...already been published, with the exception of the Lewis and Harriet Hayden Scholarship with an income of $200, which has been assigned to Edward Jackson Davis, A. B., Fisk University '95, of Sumter, S. C., a member of the third class. This scholarship was founded in 1894 from a bequest by Mrs. Harriet Hayden, to be devoted to the education of colored students...