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...will of Mrs. Amy R. Sheldon, widow of Frederick Sheldon '42, of New York and Newport, which was filed for probate Thursday afternoon in Newport, two gifts to the University are provided for, amounting in the aggregate to about $800,000. The first bequest, in cash and securities, is of $300,000 for the remodelling and enlarging of Gore Hall. If, however, the Corporation does not deem it advisable to use the money for that purpose, it may be devoted to other ends...
...amount of about $500,000 is bequeathed for the purpose of establishing a number of travelling scholarships. This bequest will be called the Frederick Sheldon Fund. These gifts to the University are from that part of Mrs. Sheldon's estate which came to her from her husband, and are, as she mentions in her will, to be considered as gifts from...
...most pretentious piece in the issue is "The End of the Journey," by E. B. Sheldon, a longish story dealing vitally with an ever-important theme--a son's belated grasp of a mother's love. So long as merely mother and son are before us, the author fares well, both in character-drawing and in his ability to sustain the scenes; but in the son's brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort...
Edward Brewster Sheldon...
...Bowditch L. O. Long '08, Charles Wyman C. O. McMahon '09, Price Greenleaf R. D. Murphy '08, Bowditch R. L. Niles '09, John Harvard L. B. Packard '09, Price Greenleaf A. Prussian '08, Bowditch H. R. Rafsky '10, John Harvard J. M. Rosenthal '09, Price Greenleaf E. B. Sheldon '08, John Harvard R. N. Shreve '08, John Harvard E. W. Sinnott '08, Price Greenleaf S. Thomson '08, John Harvard L. E. Weber '08, John Harvard H. O. Wellman '08, Bowditch As of 1906-07 G. Dewey '09, John Harvard Scholars of the Second Group, 1907-08. E. K. Adams...