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Is Your Name Leavenworth? The Yalies Want to See You

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Harvard has its Murphy Scholarship and has usually been able to find a bright little Murphy to win the stipend. But someone named Leavenworth once gave Yale a chunk of fortune to ensure the blessings of the higher education for his descendants-and Yale is stuck without a Leaven-worth.

This week the Elihus grew desperate and inserted and advertisement in the New York Times. ". ... Yielding $420 per annum . . . it is open to all male students with the surname of Leavenworth."

No Leavenworths are listed in the Boston telephone directory, less than a handful in the New York directory.

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