GIFTS AND BEQUESTS ANNOUNCED TO ALUMNI

At the annual Alumni Luncheon in Alumni Gymnasium, following the Commencement exercises in Webster Hall, the following list of gifts and bequests exceeding $1,000 and received during the year 1925-26 up to June 18 was made public:

Anonymous Fund No. 2, subject to an annuity representing the income of this Fund $725,000.00 Bequest of Francis L. Town, 1856, to establish an endowment fund the income of which can be used as the Trustees may decide 250,000.00 Edward K. Hall, 1892, for construction of "Dick Hall's House" 154,677.50 Howard C. Davis, 1906, construction started on Field House which will cost in excess of $lOO,OOO Edward Tuck, 1862, two gifts aggregating 20,000.00 Augustine V. Barker, 1872, to establish a Graduate Fellowship... 20,00000 Margaret Olivia Sage Estate, sth partial distribution 15 000 00 Henry H. Hilton, 1890, for enlarging Hilton Field and improvements on the golf course 10,000.00 Josie A. Davis Estate, to provide Scholarships for the Thayer School . 6,000.00 William W. Niles, 1883, enlargement of William W. Niles Scholarship Fund 3 000 00 Theodore N. Vail (Hon. 1911) Fund 2,000.00 Dartmouth College Alumni Fund. Payments to June 17 83,640.33 Carnegie Foundation for Retiring Allowances 14 574 57 Benjamin A. Kimball, 1854, Income of F"nd 10,800.00

In addition to the above announced gifts actually received, the year has been especially noteworthy on account of the pledge of a donor, who has requested that his name be withheld, of a gift of $1,000,000 with which to construct a Library.