Word: gifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift of nearly $1.5 million has been given the University for studies in Forestry and Neurology. The funds, from the estate of the late Katherine E. Bullard, will provide for a new professorship in Forestry and research in both Forestry and Neurology...
Commenting on Miss Bullard's gift to the Medical School, Dean George Packard Berry said, "Miss Bullard's interest in supporting research in the field of neurology at the Harvard Medical School will not only greatly strengthen existing activities but also foster research in new areas of basic science as applied to neurological problems...
...gift of 100 pounds to Harvard in 1643, the largest the College had received up to that time, was directly solicited by John Weld, from Roxbury. Weld persuaded Ann Radcliffe, who never saw America, both to set up a trust fund, the income of which was to be used solely for scholarship purposes, and to name his son, a Junior in the College, first recipient of the award...
When the younger Weld was in the same year expelled from the College on two counts of local burglary, and his departure solemnized by a personal whipping from President Dunster, no successor to the scholarship was designated, and the gift became merged with general College funds...
Years later, when women were first being allowed to study at the College, the Corporation again recognized Ann Radcliffe's gift as a separate fund and decided to name the women's annex...