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...members: the University of Virginia and the affiliated Mary Washington College, Randolph-Macon College, General Assembly's Training School, Union Theological Seminary, Virginia Union University, University of Richmond, Medical College of Virginia, the College of William and Mary and the affiliated Richmond Professional Institute, Longwood College, Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia State College...
...Longwood Foundation, Inc., to establish a fund for the Medical School...
Chemical Manufacturer du Pont, creator of Longwood, died last spring at 84. Last week his will disclosed that he had left almost his whole fortune to a benevolent foundation which will keep the famed gardens growing. Total bequest: some $60 million (including 3,000 shares of Christiana Securities Co. at $11.000 a share). Pierre du Pont's gift makes Longwood, open to the public since 1921, one of the world's most richly endowed pieces of real estate...
...already a pretty arboretum. Du Pont money transformed it into an American Versailles. Du Pont spent $500,000 for fountains, built $2 million worth of greenhouses to put three acres under glass. Admiring the water gardens of Italy's Villa Gamberaia near Florence, he copied them at Longwood-adding lakes and canals...
Some four million visitors (300,000 last year) have toured Longwood, admired the sunken gardens, marbled conservatory, the great crystal chandeliers and thousands of blooming plants (flowers are replaced before wilting). Hereafter, the pleasure which visitors take in the agapanthus and the vanilla vines will grow or shrink (depending on individual personality and politics) with the thought of that $60 million. Longwood's taxexempt, gilt-edged lilies will toil not, nor spin; they may invite some musing future Coolidge to murmur: "Some shareholders...