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James Smithson's original bequest amounted to $508,318.46. Other endow ments, increase of investment values, savings from income, etc. have swelled this hoard to $1,808,000. In 1919 the will of Charles L. Freer of Detroit provided nearly $2,000,000 to manage the art collections which he had already donated and housed next door to the Institution head quarters. This has increased to $4,770,000 bringing the total of the Smithsonian's investments to $6,577,000. Of this, $1,000,000 is deposited in the Treasury and draws 6% by law; the rest...
...outstanding pieces of silver to be seen is the Great Salt, pictured above. Coming into the possession of the College into the possession of the College in 1644, the bequest of Richard Harris, an early resident and Fellow Commoner and the brother-in-law of Henry Dunster, this is the oldest bit of College Silver now extant. As fingers were used entirely while eating, the dainty students would wipe their fingers (before dipping them into the salt) upon the napkin which rested on the three knobs which may be seen on the rim. The napkin also aided in keeping flies...
Money for the monument was left by the late J. Henry Ferguson, bachelor Baltimore banker and socialite, who described Generals Jackson & Lee as "my boyish heroes," specified in his bequest: "On one of the [statue's] sides, I want it to read: They were great generals and Christian soldiers and waged war like gentlemen.' These are my own words, and I only ask the simple word under them, 'Ferguson.'" Mrs. Fraser's winning model, in accordance with the competition's rules, showed the generals as they parted before Chancellorsville, on May 2, 1863. General...
Established in 1931 from a bequest of the late Archibald C. Coolidge '87, this professorship "in modern European or Asiatic History" bears the novel stipulation that on vacancy it may at the University's discretion be filled or remain unoccupied with accumulation of income...
Downer, studying English here, graduated with honors in 1934. The Downer Scholarship, which he was granted was established by the bequest of Charles Downer '92. The two awards total...