Recent Bequests.

The late Henry M. Pierce, ex-mayor of Boston, and proprietor of the Baker Chocolate Manufactory, who it will be remembered died last January, left the bulk of his property to five institutions: The Mass. General Hospital, the Homeopathic Hospital, the Boston Art Museum, Mass. Institute of Technology and Harvard. It has taken some time to arrange the provisions of the will, but it is now certain that these five institutions will receive not far from three-quarters of a million each. The Corporation of the University has not as yet planned any definite purpose for the use of this rich endowment. A part will doubtless go to the enlargement of the Library, while the rest will be devoted to widening the scope of the various departments.

Another large bequest which is of great interest to the University is that of Miss Belinda Randall who left a large sum of money to be used for charitable purposes. Her executors, F. V. Balch '59 and William Minot '68, have placed $10,000 at the disposal of the Corporation for the building of a new dining hall, and further $10,000 toward the Phillips Brooks House, and a liberal endowment to Radcliffe.

Dr. Walcott and Mr. Henry L. Higginson have been appointed a committee from the Corporation on the Randall bequests to Harvard. They have placed the commission for the plans of the new dining hall in the hands of E. M. Wheel-wright '76, and there is every prospect of their early approval. The hall which is to bear the name of its donor, will be built on the vacant lot on Holyoke St., back of Dunster. It is intended to accomodate 800 students and will be run on the plan of the Foxcroft Club.

Another important bequest to Harvard is that of Alexander Wheelock Thayer '43, who establishes an endowment fund of $30,000 to be used in assisting worthy undergraduates. In awarding this assistance preference is to be given to young men bearing the name of Thayer.