Word: bequests
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Arthur O. Lovejoy, professor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, will be the second holder of the William James Lectureship established in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology by the bequest of the late Edgar Pierce. Professor Lovejoy will give a series of eight lectures on Mondays and Thursdays at the beginning of the second half-year on "The Grace Chains of Beings": the History of an Idea...
...dispensation of such funds is often a task beyond the ken of a layman. The man with a casual interest in a subject, desiring to leave a sum to the students of that subject, is not necessarily a good judge of the manner of expenditure. A sincere and equitable bequest, in short, should be drawn up in one of two ways: it should either have been gone over by an expert in the field to which it is to be devoted, or its dispensation should be left to the recipient...
...principles which have guided his policy throughout twenty-three years as Harvard's chief executive. But when he says that "Everything in a University is a means to a distant end," President Lowell is sounding the Keynote not only to his administration but less obviously to this, his final bequest to his successors. With the clear foresight and profound understanding that have distinguished him as a builder, he outlines, for the guidance of those who must carry on, the foundations upon which his work has rested and upon which theirs must rest, if it is to fulfill the ideal...
...custom of sending exchange professors from Harvard to France was inaugurated in 1911, through the generosity of J. H. Hyde '98, and was subsequently made permanent through a bequest of Robert Bacon '80, former ambassador to France. Professor P. J. Sachs '00, associate director of the Fogg Art Museum, holds this chair at the present time...
...bequest consisting of a collection of 600 volumes of Utopian literature has been received by the College Library from the Reverend F. G. Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, emeritus. The most important volumes of the collection are at present on display in the Treasure Room of the Library...