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...University is to receive from the estate of the late Francis Porter Fisher, A.B. 1848, a bequest of $5,000 "to endow a scholarship to be named 'the George Fisher and Elizabeth Huntington Fisher Scholarship,' the interest of which shall go to help worthy and needy students of said College, preference being given to any collateral heirs of this testator, in such manner as the College trustees may prescribe, it being made to appear that this endowment is a memorial to both my father and my mother, . . . and that it is the joint gift of myself and my twin brother...
...turned in to Dr. Grenfell's treasurer, and was by him placed at interest at two per cent. On Sept. 6, 1907, the interest on this first subscription amounted to $29.37, making the total value of the first subscription, $670.37. A second subscription, looking toward the completion of the endowment of the bed, was taken during the past spring. During the spring and early summer a total of $336.50 was collected. Very shortly after this had been turned in, a generous subscription was received from an undergraduate, of $550. This made the total amount subscribed, with interest on the first...
DEAR SIRS:--It is my wish to endow the Professorship of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College in the sum of fifty thousand dollars, the Professorship to bear the name of "Walter Augustus Lecompte," this sum to be kept as a separate fund under the name given, and any surplus of income not needed to pay the salary of the incumbent to be devoted to defraying the expenses of the Department of Otology in the Medical School of Harvard College. Yours truly, FRANCIS D. LECOMITE...
Immediately after a recent lecture by Dr. Grenfell in the Union, a notice was placed in the CRIMSON re-opening an old subscription to endow a Harvard bed in Dr. Grenfell's hospitals in Labrador. The amount raised by this renewed appeal is $76. The amount subscribed after the previous visit of Dr. Grenfell was $636, making the total $712. The amount necessary to endow the bed is $1200. Very truly yours, WALLACE C. SABINE...
...these the University will receive a bequest of Boston & Maine railroad common stock to endow the Nathaniel Ropes Professorship of Political Economy. If, after the endowment of the professorship, any surplus remains, it will go to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. A second bequest from the same source provides for the establishment of the Nathaniel Ropes, Jr., Fund, the purpose of which is not stated...