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was the sum bequeathed to the Institute by Professor Kinnicutt for the advancement of Sanitary Chemistry, life use of the income having been given to Mrs. Kinnicutt. An additional bequest by Mrs. Kinnicutt was $10,000 to be added to the Kinnicutt loan fund.

The endowment of the Alden Hydraulic Laboratory was increased to $175,000 by added gifts from the George I. Alden Trust. From this source there was also received about $31,000 for current laboratory uses between 1933 and 1936. Most of the gifts and bequests were in the form of scholarship endowment. From the estate of Mrs. Ellen C. Marble, in 1931, came $3,000 to establish, in memory of her husband, the George R. Marble fund. A scholarship fund amounting to nearly $23,000 was a joint bequest of the Reverend and Mrs. Austin S. Garver. Mr. Garver, who had been an active trustee during his twenty-five-year pastorate at Worcester, died in 1918. Mrs. Garver died in 1930.

The Harry P. Davis scholarship of $10,000 was endowed by Mrs. Davis as a memorial to him soon after his death in 1931. Miss Vinnietta J. Libbey, of Cleveland, bequeathed $15,000, in 1931, to endow the Fred A. Morse scholarship, in memory of that popular member of the class of 1892, who had died within two years after his graduation. In 1934, the Institute received a bequest of $6,000 from the estate of John A. Callahan of Holyoke, who had died in 1927, but whose estate had long been in litigation. The Class of 1885 added to its many benefactions more than $18,000 for a scholarship fund, in 1935 and 1936, $5,000 of which was from the estate of Samuel M. Green. A $10,000 scholarship was endowed by John W. Higgins, '96, in 1936. Mrs. Betsey C. Pinkerton, who died in 1932, left to the Institute $2,400 for scholarship aid. About $3,000 was contributed by the Class of 1920 Fund in 1933. Other gifts and bequests included the addition of $5,000 to the Boynton Fund by Dr. Kaven, $1,000 from the estate of Gilbert Bloss, '98, and about $1,600 to establish the Class of '93 Butterfield fund.

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