Bequests to College

BY BEQUEST OF Prof. James Fairbanks Colby, emeritus Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, who died on October 21, $20,000 has been left to Dartmouth College for establishing a fellowship to be known as the Colby Memorial Fellowship, in memory of Professor Colby's father, James K. Colby of the Class of 1838. The bequest also includes.a residuary trust fund, the whole of which comes to the College after the death of two of Professor Colby's cousins. This latter fund is to be applied to increase the endowment of the Joel Parker Professorship of Law and Political Science, which Professor Colby as first incumbent held from 1885 until his retirement in 1916.

During November the College also received a residuary bequest of $75,000 through the death of Mrs. Marie Frith Garrettson, widow of former Mayor Frederick Prime Garrettson of Newport, R. I. Mayor Garrettson's will left a similar amount to St. Paul's Sihool, and total bequests to educational and charitable institutions of $383,000.

A newspaper story from Berkeley, Calif., reported on October 27 that a bequest of $5,000 for a scholarship fund had been left to Dartmouth College by Selden C. Smith '97, former director of the East Bay Municipal Utility District and executive head of Ginn and Company.

The Colby Memorial Fellowship, according to the terms of Professor Colby's will, is to be used to aid meritorious students in graduate schools, preference being given to graduates who intend to teach law and political science, or to enter public service. In addition to his bequests to Dartmouth, Professor Colby left $ 10,000 to the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover and $10,000 to St. Johnsbury Academy. He also bequeathed his Elm Street dwelling to the Hanover hospital.