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...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 not by any means an extreme of this sort, is an illustration of the legal complications that often follow in the wake of any specific bequest...
Contributions from living alumni, of course, involve no such entanglements, but in their case there is another objection. Graduates of comparatively limited means find it difficult to use in any appropriate way the little they can afford to give. A gift of several thousand dollars can stand on its own feet anywhere; but when it is a question of several hundreds or less, the gift by itself feels a little abashed. Yet such contributions together form a very valuable addition to any university's resources...
Here at Harvard, the Endowment Fund is at present serving the purpose of the University of Vermont's Loyalty Fund. But when the endowment quota a completed the only permanent contribution box for alumni will be the customary twenty-fifth year gift of each college class. The establishment of a "University Chest" similar in plan to Vermont's Loyalty Fund would serve as a permanent storehouse for all graduate offerings, rich and poor alike, and would lighten the task of "continually passing...
...collection of Portuguese books in the Widener Library has been greatly strengthened by a gift from Mr. John B. Stetson Jr. '06, of Elkins Park, Pa., of a large library of Portuguese volumes...
Among the recent additions to the collection of paintings of the Fogg Art Museum is a "Study of a Head" by Correggio. The painting, representing the head of a young boy, is the gift of Dr. D. W. Ross '75, and is supposed to be a study for the head of Sant 'Uario, patron saint of the city of Parma, one of the figures in the fresco of the dome of Parma Cathedral. Only a few changes have been made in the finished painting...