College Is Left $2,000,000 of Green Estate

Two of Hetty Green's fabulous millions will come to the University under her daughter's will now being probated in New York.

A member of the law firm handling Mrs. H. Sylvia Wilks' will said last night that Harvard will get 4/140 of the over $70,000,000 residuary estate.

Mrs. Wilks, who died on February 5, left almost all of her money to 63 charitable institutions, including M.I.T., Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Fordham, Vassar, and Massachusetts General Hospital.

$125,000,000

Hetty Green was the leading woman financier of Wall Street in the late 19th and early 20th century. At her death in 1916, she was said to be worth between 100 and 125 million dollars.

Harvard's share is one of the largest under the will, equaling the amounts left to the St. Paul's, Groton, and Kent schools. A bequest also was left to Yale--one-half the size of Harvard's.

Six-Month Wait

The University may get its share of the estate after six months, subject to a possible contest of the will. One of Mrs. Wilks' first cousins may try to enlarge her bequest, but under the terms of the will she will risk losing her entire legacy if her action is unsuccessful.

Mrs. Wilks' attorneys yesterday described the will as "extremely simple" and expressed confidence that the will would be difficult to break.

The law firm handling the estate is headed by Harrison Tweed '07, an Overseer and a former president of the Alumni Association. Tweed was one of the three witnesses to the will, drawn in 1948.