Court Upholds Funds In Matthiessen's Will

Two bequests by the late F. O. Matthiessen '25, professor of English, to organizations listed as subversive were upheld in a ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts yesterday.

Matthiessen jumped to his death from a--Boston hotel in 1950.

He had attempted to cut from his will the two $1,000 bequests to the Samuel Adams School for Social Studies in Boston and the International Labor Defense of New York.

The court decision held that although Matthiessen had clearly intended to cancel the bequests, he had not taken the necessary stops to make the change legal.