The university says that when it inherited Einstein's estate, the bequest included ownership of Einstein's very identity, giving it exclusive legal control over who could use Einstein's name and image, and at what cost.
The bequest, including future royalties on Bishop's books, Casa Mariana and the Lewis Wharf condominium, and the Bishop trust that had provided Bishop a small but steady income for so long, took Methfessel by surprise.
The bequest included patronage of the parish of Hodnet.
The bequest included Antoine Watteau's Commedia dell'arte player of Pierrot ("Gilles").
"The hall's association with slavery at Washington College — i.e., that the Robinson bequest included enslaved persons who labored at the institution until the institution sold them to others — gives special urgency to this proposal," the report said.
A charitable bequest included in their will was indicated by 5.4percentnt of the respondents.
But over the course of, say, the last 100 years, the collections have been enormously enriched by a series of gifts and bequests, including one of 3,000 sheets in 1987 from an encyclopedic collector, Mathias Polakovits.
The statement added: "This is a commitment to seek views in as inclusive a way as possible on how controversial associations and bequests, including that of Rhodes to Oriel, and the record of them in the built environment, can be dealt with appropriately".
Established in the 19th century as a collection of Napoleonic and Second Empire art, archives, and related paraphernalia, the Marmottan became part of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and as such was the recipient of several serendipitous bequests, including major ones from the heirs of Monet, quickly converting it into one of the world's great repositories of his works.
Other bequests included gifts to the Church and money to be distributed to the poor.
