Word: bequests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wells Bequest...
...Harvard the next development was the David A. Wells bequest in 1902, which, beside providing for a professorship in economics, enabled the Department to offer an annual prize of $500 for the best thesis embodying the results of original investigation by members of the senior class in Harvard College and graduates, of not more than three years standing, of any department of the University, the subject to lie within the field of economics or some adjacent field, and the thesis to be published by the University. While this bequest did not provide funds for research it did provide means...
...Fair Harvard" (With a question mark after the "Fair") is the title of the cartoon, which stresses the fact that despite Mr. Wyeth's $5,000,000 bequest for unrestricted use, the University officials, "agents of a hundred million dollar corporation", refused to use $600 a year to raise the wages of 20 scrubwomen two cents an hour. "If Harvard's Maintenance Department decided to replace its horses with trucks, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals could and would prevent their turning these horses out on the street", runs the article, with the recommendation that the women...
...Harkness gift will provide for Harvard houses. Yale will apply part of its funds to increasing the salaries of resident instructors, part to student aid that will cover the greater cost of living in the new quarters. It should be possible to use some of this stringless Wyeth bequest, not only to expand the Harvard faculty, but to make continuance with it more attractive to its present members, and particularly to those house residents who will be most closely in contact with students and whose high quality must be assured. Nothing could be more dismal than the sight...
Perfect freedom is allowed the Harvard authorities in the expenditure of this gift through the unusual provisions of the will, which made no stipulations whatsoever as to what use the money should be put: Wyeth not even expressing the wish that the bequest should be considered as a memorial. This uncommon feature has aroused considerable speculation in University circles...