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...Houses. By the last will and testament of the late Seth Buddhimal, wealthy and pious banker of Sihora, Central India, there has been left, it was announced last week, $100,000 to build and endow in perpetuity three rest houses into which insects may withdraw from the world. Poor travelers will be allowed to sleep overnight in these bug rest houses, will even be paid a small sum for doing so, as long as they lie still and kill no bugs. Should a sleeper kill a bug, even by accidentally rolling over, he will be ejected from the bug house...
...private rooms in hospitals and do not wish to suffer what seemed to them the humiliation of free wards. Alba Boardman Johnson, onetime (1911-19) president of the Bald win Locomotive Works and for years trustee of the Jefferson Medi cal College and Hospital, Philadelphia, suggested that wealthy patrons endow hospitals sufficiently so that these could afford to charge patients only $2 daily. "Probably 80% of the people may be classed as people of moderate means. The other 20% is divided between the rich...
...course one does not endow a $150,000 professorship to commemorate an accident of nature. Editor Bok's admiration for Woodrow Wilson had its roots in a temperamental affinity that naturally existed between two self-assertive individualists who could agree on many things; and in one strong-minded man's appreciation of another's "beautiful thinking machine." Also, Mr. Bok, with a self-educated man's capacity for admiring education in others, never ceased to marvel at Mr. Wilson's command of language, including slang. He even asked Mr. Wilson once how he came...
Weary of submitting the teeth of his gift horse to the suspicious scrutiny of Egypt's political leaders (TIME, March 1 et seq.), John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week withdrew his offer to build in Cairo and endow a ten-million-dollar "Temple of the Unfolding Life of Man." A finishing touch to the farce was added by Mr. Rockefeller. His last letter to King Fuad of Egypt explained that the gift was withdrawn "to relieve the Egyptian Government of embarrassment." Still fumbling about for reasons for Egypt's reluctance other than the seemingly true one? Egypt's political misgivings...
...Willard was elected last week, after twelve years on the Johns Hopkins board and three years as mainspring of a committee that has raised some six millions to expand and endow the Johns Hopkins hospital and medi-cal school. Now he will be, with President Goodnow, the mainspring by which Johns Hopkins means to eliminate its elementary instruction, reorganize itself on its original lines of advanced and research work (TIME, March 8) and raise six more millions to finance the change...