LARGE BEQUEST REPORTED

A gift to Dartmouth College estimated at over $100,000 was reported in news dispatches from Dover, N. H., August 13. Notification of this gift has not been received by the College.

According to the Dover dispatches dated August 13, Miss Lydia Josephine Pike, sister of the late Judge Robert G. Pike, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and a Dartmouth graduate in the class of 1872, left practically her entire fortune, estimated at approximately $150,000, to public institutions. Of this sum Dartmouth College, according to the dispatch, will receive more than $100,000. These dispatches under date of August 13 said that Miss Pike died "last week."

Dartmouth is bequeathed $10,000 outright and the residue of the estate, according to the dispatch. The Dartmouth bequests are in memory of Miss Pike's brother, Judge Pike, who died in 1917. Miss Pike was the last surviving member of her immediate family. She was many years a school teacher in Somerville, Mass. Her father, Amos Pike, was a noted schoolmaster and the author of Pike's Arithmetic.

Ex-Mayor Arthur G. Whittemore of Dover was appointed executor of the estate. The will was proved at a special session of the Grafton County Probate Court before Judge James McCabe, August 13. Mr. Whittemore estimated that Dartmouth would receive a sum in excess of $100,000.