Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revocation of a bequest of $150,000 to Harvard University and one of $75,000 to the Fogg Art Museum were disclosed when the will of Herbert Nathan Straus '03 was filed for probate in New York City recently. A total of over $900,000 in philanthropic bequests has been eliminated from the will...
...January 16, the Library received the second gift, a bequest of 176 rare volumes left to the Library by the late Dr. W. S. Thayer '85, former member of the Board of Overseers. Despite its small size, this collection is of great interest, and contains a number of incunabula and several Aldine editions of the Classics. There are also some unusual items of Americana, such as the first book printed in Connecticut, the Saybrook "Confession of Faith," New London...
Perhaps the most unusual of these four gifts was the bequest of Winward Prescott '09, late assistant professor of English at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This consisted of 2,500 volumes of short stories that Professor Prescott had collected for his course on the short story at M.I.T...
...final gift was a library of 2,350 volumes on a wide variety of subjects. This was the bequest of Dr. W. L. Richardson '64, late professor in the Medical School. It was made up in the greater part of books by well-known writers in history and literature, with a scattering of travel and science...
Funds for the new building will be supplied from a bequest made to the University in 1931 by the will of the late Gregory Seeley Bryan '87, of Washington, Connecticut, to provide a memorial which was to bear his name. The frame house which now occupies the location will be removed, and construction will be started on April 1 in order that the new building may be ready for use at the opening of the next academic year...