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HARVARD COFFERS ENRICHED OVER SIX MILLION BY GIFTS

Beside $10,000,000 Campaign, Incomes. Subscriptions, and Pensions, Total Is $6,610,876.30

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

In continuation of the publication by the Crimson of President Lowell's report to the Board of Overseers for 1926-27, the following section on the bequests made to the University the past academic year is given:

The gifts during the past year have been singularly large and generous. Apart from the $10,000,000 campaign, the income paid as capital by the trustees under the will of Gordon McKay, the payment of previous subscriptions to the Alumni Endowment Fund, the sums received for pensions from the Carnegie Foundation, the gifts and legacies received during the year came to $6,610,876.30, the single gifts of not less than $25,000 being as follows: Anonymous: Additional, to be added to Anonymous Fund No. 4  $50,000,00 Anonymous: To establish the Florence T. Baker Fund, "the income to be used for the purchase of books and other printed material for the library of the Graduate School of Business Administration  100,000.00 Anonymous: To establish the Richard P. Strong Fund, "for the study and teaching of Tropical Medicine in Harvard University"  100,000.00 Anonymous: For research and instruction in abnormal and dynamic psychology  $25,113.01 George F. Baker, Hon. '26: Graduate School of Business Administration for endowment  573,392.89 Estate of E. D. Barbour: On account of his bequest, "to Harvard University for the general purposes of the University"  742,232.00 Estate of R. D. Bell: His bequest, the "income . . . shall be expended for the benefit of the Department of Biological Chemistry . . . in the Harvard Medical School"  100,000.00 Carnegie Corporation of New York: Fellowships and Scholarships in the Division of Music--Endowment  40,700.00 Class of 1902: Additional, to complete their gift of $150,000  60,984.96 Judge G. A. Carpenter 'SS and Mrs. Carpenter: G. B. Carpenter '24: Mrs. E. J. Bermingham: To "establish "The Isham Carpenter Scholarship in memory of Isham Carpenter . . . the income may provide for the tuition of interested but needy students at Harvard College  25,000.00 Estate of Charles Downer: A foundation for scholarships  200,000,00 Trustees of the Charles

William Eliot Fund: For Landscape Architecture  115,146.77Estate of H. C. Frick: Additional unrestricted  48,900.00General Education Board: Endowment of the Department of Ophthalmology and for salaries  188,400.00"From a graduate": For the construction of The Le Baron Russell Briggs Memorial Baseball Cage  125,000.00The Harvard Fund  242,900.15Harvard Medical School in China: "for the establishment of scholarships or fellowships to be administered by the Trustees of the Peking Union Medical College..."  47,610.94The Harvard War Memorial  189,228.00International Education Board: For construction and endowment of a Southern Astronomical Observatory Station at Bloemfontein. South Africa  180,000.00Law School Endowment  695,000.00Estate of A. F. Luke: One half for the advancement of medical and surgical science  237,081.43G. A. McKinlock and Mrs. McKinlock: Additional payment for the G. A. McKinlock Jr., Dormitory  91,087.92Estate of Norton Perkins: "In Memoriam to my father, the late E. H. Perkins Jr."  50,250.00The Rockefeller Foundation: For the School of Public Health  137,250.00The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial: Industrial Psychology  12,000.00Survey of Crime and Criminal Justice  25,000.00International research in the social sciences  7,490.77Study of individual industrial efficiency and research in the field of business  20,000.00The Charles Sprague Sargent Memorial Fund for the Endowment of the Arnold Arboretum  222.345.00Estate of Martha L. Sargent (Mrs. Howard Sargent.: To be known as the Louisa Lee legacy  83,175.06Mrs. Augustus Clifford Tower: To establish the "Augustus Clifford Tower Fund (1927)." Restricted until a specified time, after which one fellowship to a graduate of Harvard College for study in a French university; the other to a French student for study in any graduate department of Harvard University  100,000.00Estate of Theodore N. Vail  112,300.40H. S. Vanderbilt '07: Additional, for the Medical School Dormitory, and for the salary of an Instructor of Physical, Training, in the Medical School  470,100.00Estate of Artemas Ward '99: Additional  264,271.97From partners and friends: Additional, for "The John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge"  30,000.00William Ziegler Jr. '12: For Research and Instruction in the Field of Foreign Trade; and for Teaching and Research in International Relationships, in the Graduate School of Business Administration  35,000.0

William Eliot Fund: For Landscape Architecture  115,146.77Estate of H. C. Frick: Additional unrestricted  48,900.00General Education Board: Endowment of the Department of Ophthalmology and for salaries  188,400.00"From a graduate": For the construction of The Le Baron Russell Briggs Memorial Baseball Cage  125,000.00The Harvard Fund  242,900.15Harvard Medical School in China: "for the establishment of scholarships or fellowships to be administered by the Trustees of the Peking Union Medical College..."  47,610.94The Harvard War Memorial  189,228.00International Education Board: For construction and endowment of a Southern Astronomical Observatory Station at Bloemfontein. South Africa  180,000.00Law School Endowment  695,000.00Estate of A. F. Luke: One half for the advancement of medical and surgical science  237,081.43G. A. McKinlock and Mrs. McKinlock: Additional payment for the G. A. McKinlock Jr., Dormitory  91,087.92Estate of Norton Perkins: "In Memoriam to my father, the late E. H. Perkins Jr."  50,250.00The Rockefeller Foundation: For the School of Public Health  137,250.00The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial: Industrial Psychology  12,000.00Survey of Crime and Criminal Justice  25,000.00International research in the social sciences  7,490.77Study of individual industrial efficiency and research in the field of business  20,000.00The Charles Sprague Sargent Memorial Fund for the Endowment of the Arnold Arboretum  222.345.00Estate of Martha L. Sargent (Mrs. Howard Sargent.: To be known as the Louisa Lee legacy  83,175.06Mrs. Augustus Clifford Tower: To establish the "Augustus Clifford Tower Fund (1927)." Restricted until a specified time, after which one fellowship to a graduate of Harvard College for study in a French university; the other to a French student for study in any graduate department of Harvard University  100,000.00Estate of Theodore N. Vail  112,300.40H. S. Vanderbilt '07: Additional, for the Medical School Dormitory, and for the salary of an Instructor of Physical, Training, in the Medical School  470,100.00Estate of Artemas Ward '99: Additional  264,271.97From partners and friends: Additional, for "The John W. Weeks Memorial Bridge"  30,000.00William Ziegler Jr. '12: For Research and Instruction in the Field of Foreign Trade; and for Teaching and Research in International Relationships, in the Graduate School of Business Administration  35,000.0

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