Word: wyeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Harkness gift will provide for Harvard houses. Yale will apply part of its funds to increasing the salaries of resident instructors, part to student aid that will cover the greater cost of living in the new quarters. It should be possible to use some of this stringless Wyeth bequest, not only to expand the Harvard faculty, but to make continuance with it more attractive to its present members, and particularly to those house residents who will be most closely in contact with students and whose high quality must be assured. Nothing could be more dismal than the sight...
Harvard College authorities yesterday refused to make any comment on the gift of $5,000,000 which Harvard will receive as a result of the bequest of Stuart Wyeth '84, which was made known when his will was read in probate court in Philadelphia yesterday...
...that Harvard is a "hollow shell" of its former educational self, but a plea for constant, earnest effort to improve, enlarge, and maintain the group of men on whose shoulders must chiefly rest the burden of upholding Harvard's name. To no better advantage could the University put Mr. Wyeth's bequest...
Perfect freedom is allowed the Harvard authorities in the expenditure of this gift through the unusual provisions of the will, which made no stipulations whatsoever as to what use the money should be put: Wyeth not even expressing the wish that the bequest should be considered as a memorial. This uncommon feature has aroused considerable speculation in University circles...
...Wyeth died at his home in Philadelphia on December 30. He was born in Philadelphia, attended Harvard, and received his degree in 1884. After graduation, he began the study of law in the office of the late George M. Dallas and continued it at the University of Pennsylvania law school. Upon completing his course, he did not begin practicing, but succeeded his father as president of the firm of John Wyeth and Brothers, a chemical manufacturing firm, which position he held until his death last month...