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...world's most distinguished centers of learning. Three and a half centuries ago, however, it was only a farmhouse surrounded by a one-acre cow pasture. For that matter, the original John Harvard was not the founder or even the head of Harvard College; his only contribution was a bequest of 400 books and half his estate, which amounted to no more than (pounds)779 and may have been only (pounds)375. Nor was Harvard actually founded 350 years ago. All that happened in 1636 was that the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony authorized the expenditure...
Institute officials say that they expect an increase in larger personal donations as the generation of post World War II Ukrainian immigrants dies out. HURI recently received a bequest of about $1.5 million, bringing its endowment above $3 million...
Under a specific bequest from the Title 2C program--which dispenses government money to preserve unique materials--Langdell microfilmed 18,000 volumes of Latin American law gazettes last year and employed one full-time staff member specifically for that preservation work...
...School will soon launch a program to study conflicting international laws, thanks to a $ 250,000 bequest from former Law School faculty member Kurl H. Nadelmann, who died last year...
Vorenberg, in acknowledging the bequest, said that "the Law School will now be in a much stronger position in pursuing scholarship in this incredibly important field." The school previously had no funds specifically for the study of conflict of laws...