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Radcliffe received several "transforming" gifts this year to boost the campaign, according to Clendenning, including $1 million from the Pforzheimer family for the Schlesinger Library, a $1 million bequest to a student assistance fund from Betty Ann H. Vail '34 and a $3 million matching fund from an anonymous donor...
...increase comes from an unrestricted bequest from the Landon H. Gammon Fund and is expected to increase financial aid for foreign students about $100,000 per year...
Hennessey-Fiske won $300, and Gibbs won $150.The Boylston bequest also provides funds for acomplimentary dinner for the judges before thecontest...
...instance, the interest from Benjamin Wadsworth's 1737 bequest of "110 pounds for some poor scholar (tho' to no dunce or a rake)" now applies to general scholarships, without its dunce stipulation...
Yale, Princeton and the University of Chicago are currently considering Holocaust studies professorships, according to Martin H. Peretz, a lecturer in social studies. While no particular scholar may have been available at the time of the bequest, that is no reason for the University to convince the donor to reallocate the money...