Word: originated
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...hundred thousand dollars to be used in studying the origin and cure of cancer has been bequeathed to the University under the terms of the will of Mr. H. F. Mills '89, filed this week in the Plymouth Probate Court. The fund, to be named after his wife, will be known as the Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund...
...devise, and bequeath into the President and Fellows of Harvard College, in memory of my beloved wife, Elizabeth Worcester Mills, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars to be known as the "Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund", the income from such fund to be devoted to the investigation of the origin and cure of cancer. In the event that thereafter the opinion of the President and Fellows of said College such investigation shall have been satisfactorily concluded. I authorize the President and Fellows of said College to devote such income to such other medical investigation or research as in their judgment...
...William Roscoe Thayer '81, President of the Cambridge Historical Society; Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80; and Mr. T. Harrison Cummings, Librarian of the City of Cambridge. Mr. Thayer and Professor Hart will talk on the place of Cambridge in American History and Mr. Cummings will speak on the origin of the American flag...
Many books of foreign origin are desired by American students and scientific investigators. Such volumes do not compete with the domestic product. Yet their price would be much enhanced by the proposed duties and method of valuation, with the inevitable result of placing a needless and vexing burden upon American scholarship. As books of the kind mentioned would have to be imported in small lots, if Mr. Fordney has his way with the publishers, the additional cost would bear heavily upon those who must have them. Altogether, this gratuitous and senseless levy upon the tools of education...
Professor R. A. Daly '93 will give a lecture this evening at 8, on "Continental Creep and the Origin of Mountains" at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. Professor Daly has been connected with the Geological department of the University since 1895, and has been Professor of Geology since 1912. He is an authority on igneous rocks...