Word: bequests
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Newark, N. J., March 13--The construction of a laboratory for the study of practical applied hydraulics at the Harvard Engineering School was made possible by a $50,000 bequest in the will of Clemens Herschel '61, noted hydraulic engineer, who died on March 1. In the will probated here today the sum was set aside as a trust fund for Mrs. Herschel, to revert to Harvard on her death...
...Gosh, you're beautiful! You remind me more than anybody else I ever knew of my wife [the late, gorgeous Lillian Russell]." In Pittsburgh the last will and testament of the late, great Alexander Pollock Moore (TIME, Feb. 24) was opened last week and found to contain a bequest of $100,000 to the Queen who reminded him of Lillian...
...most attractive features of the Norton Chair is the fact that although theoretically dedicated to poetry, the terms of the bequest are sufficiently broad to allow it to be held by an exponent of poetical expression in such allied fields as Music or Fine Arts as well as in Literature. In this way the Norton lectures are considerably widened in appeal and the opportunity for cultural refinement to be found in their consistently high caliber is made attractive to a wider range of students than those concentrating exclusively in the field of literature...
...provisions of the will, Harvard was named residuary legatee of the estate, which was valued at $997,882. An inventory of the estate was filed in the Probate Court, Washington, Connecticut, last Wednesday, by the Bridgeport Trust Co., trustee. A bequest of $300,000 was made to the town of Washington for a memorial besides eight bequests of $1,000 each...
...been pointed out that graduate students work in the chemical laboratories after hours, and that the cost of keeping Mallinckrodt open in the evenings would be $10,000 at a maximum. In this connection it is noteworthy that the interest on the recent Wyeth bequest would amount to approximately 20 times that figure. There seems to be no reason why such a plan is not feasible as well as beneficial, and the fact remains that so far any such adequate reason has been conspicuously lacking...