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...munificence than in Massachusetts. Its citizens ennoble the acquisition of riches by devoting their affluence to the service of popular beneficence. Generosity has become a public sentiment. Indeed, it is already proverbial that no rich New Englander would dare to imperil his future happiness by failing to make a bequest to Harvard. This wise benevolence, so nobly characteristic of the public spirit of this Commonwealth, will yet enrich the foundations of Harvard beyond English precedent. Ampler revenues, increasing the corps of instruction, and furnishing appliances for the illustration of every department of human knowledge, will annually extend the usefulness...
...excellent technical education to many ambitions young men who had not the means to pursue a course at a regular college. There is therefore no tuition expense, and admission is granted to a limited number of students from Pennsylvania who have had a high school education. The original bequest was $500,000, which was largely increased at the death of Mr. Packer, and is now further increased by his son's will. The course at Lehigh is technical, mainly engineering, civil, mining and electrical, and is so rigorous that heretofore but few men have graduated in each year. The university...
...meeting of the trustees of Tufts College in Boston, Tuesday, a bequest of $10,000 from Miss Mary Blake of Kingston, N. Y., was announced, and a committee was appointed to consider the expediency of opening the college to women...
Yale College has just received a bequest of $60,000 from A. E. Kent of Chicago for a new Chemical Laboratory...
...bequest of $10,000 left by Miss Mary Blake of Kingston, N. H., to Tufts College was announced at a monthly meeting of the board of trustees of that institution yesterday...