Date: 3 Elul 5583
From: Rabbi Moshe Sofer
To: Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Lehren
The administrators of an Amsterdam charitable endowment asked whether they may deviate from the testator's explicit requirement that the funded scholar study abroad, given that the designated yeshiva has dissolved and the father argues that local study under his own tutelage would better achieve the will's purpose of producing a qualified moreh hora'ah. They also raised whether the funds could be split to train two students locally. The Chasam Sofer's ruling is not included in this excerpt.
Source: Shu"t Chasam Sofer CM §8