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...bequest of Mrs. Clarke to the University provides that from the income of the scholarship funds, assistance be given a student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until he has completed his courses; and that assistance be given any other students she may have been helping at the time of her death...
...bequest was made conditional upon the raising of an additional sum of $2,500,000 by citizens of Cincinnati-something which rich Cincinnatians hastened to pledge themselves to do last week. The Taft house, a fine old colonial mansion on Pike Street, will continue to house the newly bequeathed Taft collection, will be opened to the public after the death of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft. Their $1,000,000 bequest will be used to support the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...
...Anglo-American scholarship fund of ?250,000 ($1,215,000) was established by the will of Lady Henry, formerly Miss Julia Lewisohn of Manhattan, who died a fortnight ago following an operation for cancer. The bequest provides scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge for U. S. students of either sex; scholarships at Harvard and Yale for British students of either...
...will of Mrs. H. B. Randolph, Harvard and Clark Universities are left $6,000. The Harvard bequest is to be for a scholarship in the School of Business Administration...
Professor Sargent died at his home. "Holm Lea," in Brookline yesterday, following a short illness of only two weeks, up to which time he had gone to the Arboretum every day. He had been in charge of the Arboretum since it was created in 1872 from a bequest of John Arnold to Harvard for that purpose. This was the most important of the many tasks connected with the progressing study of horticulture and forestry which he undertook. He conducted the first census of the forest resources of the United States, which led to the first federal action of importance...