Business: Sargent's $10,000

What to do with the $10,000 which the late Professor Charles Sargent bequeathed to the "President and Fellows of Harvard College, to be by them invested and the income thereof to be added to the principal, for and during the term of 100 years from the date of my decease," was the problem last week of College Treasurer Charles Francis Adams.* At the end of the 100 years the principal would become, according to a compilation worked out last week by the Wall Street Journal, if invested at

4% $ 524.849 4¾%...

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