Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But so entrenched were the traditions and methods of gaining this degree at Harvard, and so long and forbidding the task of changing them, that he preferred to leave it to a younger man who should succeed him. This archaic and cumbersome bequest, the Graduate School, may be regarded as the greatest problem of the new presidency...
...Bequests made to Harvard University during the summer total $845,000. James Loeb '88, left three. The first was a $300,000 "Loeb Classical Library Foundation" for research in Greek and Latin literature; the second a $500,000 trust fund for Harvard University, the income from which is to be used to increase salaries of tutors and assistants in the department of the classics; and the third, a, $5,000 bequest to the University Library, the income from which is to be used for maintaining the Loeb Library...
...outright, $10,000,000 in trust and the residue of the estate. The will urges executors not to seek repayment of loans from persons in need, provides a $50,000 fund for any relatives who may have been forgotten, orders a cut of one-third in the bequest of anyone who contests the will. A final codicil increases all bequests by the amount the pound has dropped since England left the gold standard...
...twenty tutors and assistants in the field of Classical Studies, the bequest will probably mean an increase of about $1,000 in their annual salaries. For the University it will mean that the services of men who might otherwise accept professorships at smaller universities can be retained...
...found that Mr. Ridley had owned extensive property uptown as well as many an East Side tenement. In his bank was over $1,000,000 in cash. His will left $812,000 to relatives who had not seen him for years. A bequest of $200,000 was left Weinstein provided the latter survived him. Police medical examiners were hard put to tell which victim had predeceased the other. Since neither body was robbed, it was supposed that some obscure revenge had motivated the crime. A bootlegger's hideout, discovered deep in the same old building, darkened the mystery further...