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and Samuel S. Edmands, '99, director of Pratt Institute, and former president of the Alumni Association. Harry R. Sinclair, '93, was elected to complete Mr. Dingley's term. Mr. Davis, one of the pioneers in electrical manufacturing, and known as the "father of radio broadcasting," died September 10, 1931, at the age of sixty-three.

The years 1927 to 1929, madly rich and incredibly mad, were productive ones for the Institute, though in retrospect not nearly so productive as they should have been in the face of such vulgarity of national wealth. The principal gains in endowment were in the form of sustaining scholarships. Four of $10,000 each were received in the year 1927-28: from William W. Brown, Worcester manufacturer; Henry M. Dingley, '79; the Harrington brothers, Charles A., '95, and Frank C., '98; and from Mrs. Ellen M. Paige, mother of Harry B. Paige, '98. Also provided was an annual gift from the Class of 1885 to provide a scholarship, which the class endowed in 1934. A $10,000 gift to the 1920 Endowment from George F. Fuller was also transferred to the scholarship account.

In 1927, Mrs. Caroline S. Washburn endowed the Charles Grenfill Washburn memorial scholarship. The additional $5,000 for the Henry W. Miller scholarship was received from the estate of Mrs. Ruth A. Hoar that year, as promised in the will of her sister many years before. A $10,000 loan fund was also established in 1927 by the will of George E. Duffy, woolen manufacturer of Worcester. By the advantageous sale of securities in which the Alzirus Brown fund of 1913 was invested the principal of that fund was increased $67,500 to $140,700.

Only a few other special additions to endowment were made between 1927 and 1931. One was a bequest from Ray L. Stinchfield, '08, who died in 1928, amounting to about $13,000. The other was a fund of nearly $27,000 for the department of Modern Languages, the residuary bequest of Mrs. Margaret Harlow, of Worcester, daughter of William T. Harlow. A bequest of $10,000 was received from the estate of Mrs. Addle L. French,

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