Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dental School's imminent need is monetary assistance. Although it is fortunate enough in its ability to draft capable instructors for a pittance, the absence of suitable resources places its present position at an impasse. When the Wyeth Bequest was announced a few months ago, several metropolitan newspapers assumed, seemingly without foundation, that some part of it was to be devoted to the Dental School. Whether or not that is the solution is debatable; at least, the discussion brought into prominence the evidence of the needs of this branch of the University. The modern university, to maintain its position must...
...been pointed out that graduate students work in the chemical laboratories after hours, and that the cost of keeping Mallinckrodt open in the evenings would be $10,000 at a maximum. In this connection it is noteworthy that the interest on the recent Wyeth bequest would amount to approximately 20 times that figure. There seems to be no reason why such a plan is not feasible as well as beneficial, and the fact remains that so far any such adequate reason has been conspicuously lacking...
...Fair Harvard" (With a question mark after the "Fair") is the title of the cartoon, which stresses the fact that despite Mr. Wyeth's $5,000,000 bequest for unrestricted use, the University officials, "agents of a hundred million dollar corporation", refused to use $600 a year to raise the wages of 20 scrubwomen two cents an hour. "If Harvard's Maintenance Department decided to replace its horses with trucks, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals could and would prevent their turning these horses out on the street", runs the article, with the recommendation that the women...
...unbounded resources which Harvard is reputed to enjoy are usually more or less enmeshed in a maze of contingence and stipulations so that the University is definitely restricted to a particular policy. Such bequests as the Wyeth gift a few weeks ago, with no strings attached, create a welcome opportunity for the administration to widen its program of expansion where the need of the moment demands readjustment...
...will of Stuart Wyeth, president of John Wyeth & Son (chemists), probated at Philadelphia, directed that $5,000,000 be given to Harvard University, whence he was graduated in 1884. Willed he: "The President and Fellows of Harvard University may use the money as they...