AN UNUSUAL BEQUEST

By the will of Dr. Calvin Ellis '46, which has been held in abeyance since his death in 1883 and has been recently probated, the University receives a bequest of about $140,000. First, a fund of $50,000 is created, the income of which is to pay the tuition, cost of text books, room rent and reasonable board of such descendants of David and Beulah Ellis, and John and Hannah Ellis as are students in Harvard College. Any remaining income is to be used for the general purposes of the College. In another paragraph of the will, the residue of the estate is given to the President and Fellows. The income from this is to be used for increasing the salaries of three professors in the Medical School until those salaries, from other gifts and sources as well as this, amount to $5000 each. Any surplus income, after this has been accomplished, is to be used for other purposes in the Medical department at the discretion of the President and Fellows.

By the will of Miss Lucy Ellis, the sister of Dr. Ellis, property which is approximately valued at $90,000, is left to Harvard University. The request is made that this gift be conveyed to the College as if it were part of the property left in the will of Dr. Ellis. This addition is to be held by the College as a permanent fund, the income to be applied toward paying the salaries of the three Professors mentioned in the Calvin Ellis will. If this income is not expended for this purpose in any year, it is to be applied to the needs of the Medical Department.

Doctor Ellis was born in Boston in 1826. He entered Harvard at sixteen and graduated in the class of '46. He graduated from the Medical School in 1849, and, as a practitioner, his career was brilliant. He was associated with the faculty of the Medical School and for many years was its dean.