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...second gift is that of Judge Marcus Morton, and is in addition to that already made by him through the Yale Club...
Permission to use the name of Edwin F. Atkins, A.M. '03, as donor of a recent gift of $62,000 to the Harvard Endowment Fund was received yesterday. It was also learned that Mr. Atkins had increased his contribution to the Fund to the total of $125,000, the largest individual gift to the Boston portion of the Fund. Of this $25,000 was given unrestricted, and $100,000 was given for tropical research in economic botany...
Samuel Norwood Grant Bailey of London, now an unclassified student in the Harvard Law School, has been appointed the first holder of the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship, which was established last spring by the Harvard Club of New York City. The fellowship is the income of a gift of $40,000, established in memory of the late Joseph Choate '52, to be given each year to a British subject, coming from the University of Cambridge to study in any department of Harvard University. The vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge has the power of appointment...
...Certain gifts designated for this Fund have been received, making up part of the fund needed. Although the Endowment Fund campaign is by no means completed, the progress of the campaign, together with certain other special gifts to the School of Education, justified the President and Fellows in setting aside the balance of the sum necessary to start the School. This action assures the receipt from the General Education Board of their gift of $500,000 and establishes the School of Education on a firm basis. The action does not in any way alter the plans of the Harvard Endowment...
...Butler, LL.D. '09 as to the conditions at Columbia. An indication of the increased importance of the University is shown by his statement that Columbia needs a further endowment of at least $30,000,000 to provide funds with which to carry on its work. In connection with endowment gifts Dr. Butler defends the principle of university freedom and declares no institution of learning can conscientiously accept a gift which compromises its independence...