Gifts to College
Gifts to the College during the summer included a 12-volume set of Shakespeare, received through the bequest of Henry Flagg Silloway '71, and two oil portraits of Charles A. Eastman '87 and his daughter, Irene, received from the artist, Wallace Bryant of Rockport, Mass., and Washington, D. C. Mr. Silloway, a life-long resident of Minneapolis, directed before his death on October 12, 1934, that Dartmouth should receive his favorite books.
Dr. Eastman, whose portrait was given to the College by Mr. Bryant, is Dartmouth's most famous living Indian graduate. A Sioux chieftain, he was known in College by his tribal name, Ohiyesa. Dr. Eastman is the foremost authority on Indian law and history, and at the World's Fair in 1933 he received the medal of the Indian Council Fire for the most distinguished achievement by an American Indian. The Bryant portrait shows Dr. Eastman in ceremonial dress, wearing a feathered war bonnet and holding in his hand a tomahawk given to him by Sitting Bull.
Notice was received by the College during the summer that a bequest of $10,000 had been made by Mrs. Roxana Atwater Wentworth Bowen of New York, daughter of the late John Wentworth, 1836, former mayor of Chicago and Congressman from Illinois. Mrs. Bowen's will also directed that one-sixth of a trust fund of 1500,000 should be given to Dartmouth if her daughter should leave no children.
Under an unusual will made by Emil Bommer, Brooklyn manufacturer, Dartmouth will eventually receive the residue of an estate valued at more than half a million dollars, the bequest to constitute the Emil Bommer Fund for the education of male students, with the proviso that it is not to be used for instruction in the dead languages or for competitive athletics.
By bequest of Henry K. Davis of New York City, the College will receive about $40,000 for the establishment of the Thaddeus Stevens Scholarship Fund. Funds to the amount of $2,000 have been left to Dartmouth by the late Kingsley A. Burnham '03 of Boston for the establishment of the "Kingsley A. Burnham Scholarship," and a scholarship fund of $1,000 has been received from the estate of Lucius H. Thayer, who received the D.D. degree from Dartmouth in 1909.
The College also has received the sum of $300 from the late Marcus A. G. Meads '73 of Berkeley, Calif., "for my having received a small abatement on my term hillswhile in College."
