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HARVARD BEQUEATHED $10,000 FOR LECTURE ENDOWMENT

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Harvard was one of the recipients of a bequest totalling $25,000, it was revealed in the will of the Reverend Mr. Alva Roy Scott, made public in Knoxville, Tennessee, yesterday. The sum of $10,000 was bequeathed to Harvard for the endowment of a lectureship on the general subject of "Human Betterment."

The Reverend Mr. Scott, who studied in the Harvard Divinity School in 1893 and 1898 and obtained his A.M. degree in Ministry in 1899, died at his home in Knoxville on Monday. The remainder of the bequest was willed to the State Universities of Ohio and Indiana.

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