JuLy 26, 1918] 
Surgeon-General Rupert Blue, United States 
Public Health Service; Lieutenant-Colonel F. 
F. Simpson and Dr. Franklin Martin. 
This committee is authorized to meet at 
regular intervals and to cooperate with the 
committee on states activities, the state and 
county committees, and other agencies and so- 
cieties engaged in advisory or executive func- 
tions dealing with classifications and enroll- 
ment for military, industrial and home needs. 
THE STERLING BEQUEST TO YALE UNI- 
VERSITY 
THE residuary estate of John W. Sterling, 
which it is said will amount to $15,000,000, has 
been left by the terms of his will to Yale Uni- 
versity. Mr. Sterling, who was of the law 
firm of Shearman & Sterling, died on July 5 
while staying in Canada at the fishing lodge 
of Lord Mount Stephen. Of the remaining 
$5,000,000, $1,000,000 goes to the Miriam A. 
Osborn Memorial Home at Rye, N. Y., and 
$4,000,000 to relatives, friends, employees and 
charities. The clause which gives the residue 
of the estate to Yale University is this: 
All the rest, residue and remainder of my 
estate not hereinbefore effectually disposed of, 
I direct my said trustees to dispose of in the 
manner following: 
To apply the same, as soon after my decease 
as may be practicable, to the use and for the 
benefit of Yale University, in the erection in 
New Haven, Conn., upon land selected at its 
expense by it with the approval of my said 
trustees, of at least one enduring, useful and 
architecturally beautiful edifice, which will 
constitute a fitting memorial of my gratitude 
to and affection for my alma mater. The said 
trustees shall have entire liberty and discre- 
tion to apply any portion of the said property 
or its proceeds to the erection of a single 
building, and they shall apply the balance of 
said property, if any, to the erection and equip- 
ment of other fine and enduring buildings for 
the use of students in the academical or gradu- 
ate departments, and, to some extent, to the 
foundation of scholarships, fellowships or lec- 
tureships, the endowment of new professor- 
ships, and the establishment of special funds 
for prizes. 
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In case I erect or provide during my life- 
time for the erection of such a memorial edi- 
fice as is described in the first part of this 
article XXVIII. my trustees shall not be re- 
quired to erect an additional memorial build- 
ing, though they shall have complete power to 
apply my said residuary estate for the benefit 
of the said university to the erection of other 
edifices of a memorial character or to the other 
purposes specified in subdivision I. All build- 
ings erected as aforesaid shall be made fire- 
proof and shall be constructed in the most 
substantial manner. 
Mr. Sterling was graduated from Yale in 
1864. His bequest is the largest ever made to 
an American university, and the amount has 
only been exceeded by the gifts of Mr. Rocke- 
feller to the University of Chicago and of Mr. 
and Mrs. Stanford to Stanford University. 
MEMORIAL TO JOSIAH ROYCE 
Some of the personal friends and colleagues 
of Josiah Royce, who believe that his work and 
his character made a deep impression upon a 
wide circle of men and women, and that he be- 
came in fact the center of a large spiritual 
community, many of whose members were un- 
known to him, as he was unknown personally 
to them, feel that the reverence and affection 
which went out to him as a thinker and as a 
man should be embodied in some appropriate 
memorial of him at Harvard University, where 
he expressed himself in characteristic speech 
and writing for thirty years. 
It is proposed, with this end in view, to cre- 
ate a fund of $20,000, to be known as the 
Josiah Royce Memorial Fund, the income of 
which shall go to Mrs. Royce dut:ng her life- 
time, and thereafter to the department of 
philosophy of Harvard College, to be used in 
such ways as the departmeut shall decide from 
year to year. 
There are evident reasons why this appeal 
should not be delayed until the return of nor- 
mal conditions, natural as such postponement 
might on some accounts appear to be. And 
further, the due honoring of our moral heroes, 
though a privilege under all circumstances is 
