Word: bequest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Doane College, at Crete, Neb., has received a bequest of $13,000 from the estate of David Whitcomb, of Worcester, Mass., and the citizens of Crete have contributed a fund of $15,000 to endow a chair of natural science...
...scholarship fund of $2,500, from a bequest of Charles T. Read, has been received at Amherst, to be given to ministerial students recommended by the Hampshire East Association...
Cornell University has filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court from the recent decision of the Court of Appeals forfeiting the McGraw bequest of $1, 500, 000. The case will be brought in October, 1889. The ground of the appeal is stated to be that the State of New York holds in trust the proceeds upon which the university was founded, and which were given by the nation to the state. If this is the case, the university is not absolute owner of the property, but merely a beneficiary, and the charter limit of $3, 000, 000 will...
...Jennie McGray-Fiske, wife of Prof. Fiske and heiress of the McGray estates. The decision is based on the fact that Cornell University was limited by its Conell University was limited by its charter to property not exceeding $3,000.000, and that it had that amount before the bequest of Mrs. Fiske. The future disposition of this money which will involve long litle gation is not determined by this decision...
...with a ground area of three hundred square feet, which is to be the observatory of the party; the scarcity of wood and carpenters in Peru makes it prudent to build this here. The class of work which the expedition will undertake comes under the terms of the Boyden bequest. The cost of the work upon the Stella spectra is sustained by the Draper Memorial Fund...