HARVARD MAY RECEIVE FUNDS TO ENDOW CHAIR OF POETRY

The University may receive $110,000 as an endowment for a chair of poetry. This is a contingent provision in the will of Alden Sampson '77, author and naturalist, which was filed in the New York City court yesterday.

The will leaves the bulk of the estate to his son Edward Sampson of Washington, D. C. The estate is given to the son as a trust fund which will not be accessible to him until he reaches the age of 40. However, the will declares that should he die before this time and should he leave no children the University shall receive $110,000 as an endowment for a chair of poetry.

In this contingency the University, Princeton, and Haverford will share equally the residue of the estate. The will does not specify the purposes to which this-money is to be put.

Alden Sampson was well known as a big game hunter in the United States. He has sponsored several movementts for the protection of game in this country. As an author he is best known as the writer of "Studies in Milton and Essays on Poetry."