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: 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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