Word: court
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be a business meeting of the Chapter before the dinner at 6.30 at which keys will be given to the new members and the marshals for the coming year will receive their batons. W. C. Walt '82, Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, will speak, as well as several graduate members. All graduate and undergraduate members of the University Chapter and all members of other Phi Beta Kappa chapters have been asked to attend...
...court, in its decision, says: "We are constrained to instruct the plaintiff corporation that it cannot lawfully carry out this agreement between it and the Institute, as far as respects the property received by the University under the deeds of trust and the will of Gordon McKay...
...decision is made on a petition to have the court ratify the agreement. It means that the University, after abolishing the Lawrence Scientific School to merge its scientific courses with those of Tech. will have to re-establish a school of applied science under the direct administration of its overseers and probably in buildings located in the group at Harvard Square. However, the University authorities have not yet given out any definite statement as to what course of action will be followed in this matter. In the disposition of the fund through the operation of this agreement with Tech...
...Supreme Court's decision that the terms of the Gordon McKay will and the intent of the donor are not satisfied by the terms of the existing agreement between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology creates, for the future, a very serious problem. Indeed, the responsibility of discovering a way in which the money can be wisely used becomes a question requiring the most arduous thought of all those in direction of Harvard's policy...
...Supreme Court, however, has had to take into account other interests than these. It has been obliged to look to the actual will and intent of the benefactor whose gift first brought into existence the other, the educational question. Upon such inspection, and in the interest of the integrity of all testaments, it has declared that the present educational agreement is not a satisfaction of the McKay will. Once more the obligation to decide on a wise educational use of the fund is thrown back upon Harvard. Boston Transcript...