Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ogden L. Mills '04, former Secretary of the Treasury, left a bequest of $200,000 to Harvard College, according to the terms of his will made public yesterday evening. No University officials could be reached last night for comment, who had heard of the provision of Mills' will, while one explained that often the terms of the will were made public before the beneficiaries were notified...
...Harvard sports endowment fund has reached a total of $167,000 and will be increased by $25,000 as soon as the bequest of Thomas W. Slocum '90 is received, President Conant announced last night at the Varsity Club Dinner...
Following on the heels of the announcement that the University had received the Nieman bequest "in part" came the statement yesterday that $764,114 was the actual amount received...
Harvard has received "in part" the long-awaited Nieman bequest, it was revealed yesterday by Henry L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the Corporation. The bequest, left to the University last year by the late Mrs. Lucius W. Nieman, of Wisconsin, was once estimated at $5,000,000, but taxes have cut it down to nearer the $2,000,000 mark...
...question of how the University would use the money, Shattuck announced that he expected no definite action until the final amount is announced. The bequest was originally left to further the interests of journalism, but it is expected that the money will be used here either for additional current history courses or for new courses in English composition...