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...quinquennial election to New York University's Hall of Fame were 76 late, famed U. S. citizens. Among them: Author Louisa May Alcott (Little Women); Suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony; Matthew B. Brady, who photographed 3,500 battle and camp scenes of the Civil War; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President; Stephen Crane, Spanish War correspondent, author (The Red Badge of Courage); President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America; Designer John Fitch who built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster ("Nelly Was a Lady"); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell...
Walking along Washington's 24th Street at dusk, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau came to a steep, icy hill. At the top of the hill stood his young daughter Joan with a long bobsled. Mr. Morgenthau threw himself flat on the sled. Joan climbed on his back. Down the hill they sped, to stop in front of the Czechoslovakia!! Legation. Secretary Morgenthau & daughter trudged up the hill, zipped down again, coasted until dinner time...
...former Dean of Harvard College, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, President of Radcliffe College, and for forty-two years teacher of English at Harvard, will be held in Memorial Church at 4.30 o'clock, December 11, the birthday of Dean Briggs. Dean Briggs died last April 24th. Harvard alumni and members of the University are especially invited to the memorial service...
Last week when 3,000 fellows of the American College of Surgeons surged into Boston for their 24th convention, they crowded instructive lectures about stomach wrinkles, minced glands and many another subject (see p. 35). But none of these topics provided the assembled surgeons with the practical interest that Dr. Herbert Lester Charles Johnson packed into his lecture on the use of concentrated amniotic fluid as a preventive of peritonitis...
...notable feature of the trip was the dropping of a large load of supplies on July 24th, put up in boxes, from airplanes flying about 1000 feet above the surface of the snowfields. Of the 1200 pounds of food dropped only two small boxes containing peas were lost and none of the other food was injured in the least Washburn said that the force of the box as it hit the snow, instead of burying it many feet, merely caused it to throw up a wide crater in the bottom of which could be found the box, sunk less than...