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...awarded to the member of the University writing the best composition in concerted choral music. The composition must be for four or more voices, and may be either with or without accompaniment, the text being either secular or sacred, as the composer prefers. Mr. Boot's bequest recommends that, if the music be of a sacred character, the type shown in Cherubini and Mozart be followed...
...Shaw '69, librarian of the Theatre Collection, has begun a catalogue of the 50,000 prints included in the collection, These prints were given to the Library by Mr. Shaw and by bequest of Mr. Evert Janson Wendell '82. The catalogue will be modeled after that of the British Museum and will describe the prints in sufficient detail to enable a reader to identify any print of which he is doubtful. The catalogue is to-be arranged alphabetically according to the name of the person portrayed and will give such details as description of the subject, size, engraver, printer, date...
...unsatisfactoriness of such a system has long been felt. In the first place, bequests left for some specific purpose often would be far more effective if applied in some other way. The object for which they were given disappears or is merged in something else, and unless some legal re-interpreting of the will can be done, the bequest unaltered proves to be a mill-stone around the university's neck. The object for which it was given must be revived or forcibly kept alive just to use the money of the gift. The McKay Fund left to Harvard, while...
...Winsor Memorial Rooms, containing the Map Collection, are L and M. In Rooms R and S is the great collection of theatrical literature, and other material including portraits, playbills, and autographs given to the Library by Mr. Robert Gould Shaw '69, of Boston, and enlarged by the bequest of Mr. Evert J. Wendell...
...Bacon fellowships in painting are to be established from the bequest of Mrs. Walter R. Bacon of New York, N. Y. The incumbents are to hold them for not less than two years and to study painting this period...