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...Writer in Hollywood" will be the subject of a lecture to be given by Donald Ogden Stewart under the auspices of the English Department next Thursday in Sever 11 at 4:30 o'clock...
Open only to undergraduates of the University and their guests, the program will be sponsored by American Defense--Harvard Group, the Liberal Union, Harvard Teachers' Union, and sever M.I.T. organizations...
...Sever, who died a childless widower in 1941, directed in his will that $1,622,-482 of his fortune be used to establish a "technological school" in his native Missouri. As soon as the will was published, six Missouri colleges put in a claim. The Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, Mr. Sever's trustee, ran for cover, leaving the Cook County Court to appoint a three-man committee to interpret the will. On the premise that Mr. Sever's intention was to set up a new school and not to expand one already existing...
When they heard the decision, a year ago, the Jesuits who run St. Louis U. happily got busy. In a building formerly used by an undertaker, they set up the Sever Institute of Geophysical Technology, named a dean, planned to install $200,000 worth of equipment, scheduled an $85,000-a-year maintenance budget, and announced themselves ready to accept 180 students of geophysics in the fall. Their curriculum, they declared, would eventually compare favorably with M.I.T.'s. But within a month, St. Louis' Washington University, one of the original claimants, upset this optimistic schedule by a demand...
Meanwhile, a lawyer appointed by the court to represent Sever's unborn heirs* figured that, if the fund is not sufficient to establish a new school, the trust has failed. He, therefore, also plans to file a petition next week, asking that the money go to Sever's living heirs...