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...more than 200 people will attend today's ceremony in the faculty room of University Hall. But inaugurations have not always been this simple. When Abbot Lawrence Lowell was installed in 1909, 13,000 attended the three-day festivities, which included a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a mass demonstration by the students in the Stadium, and scores of dinners, lunches, and speeches...
Department colleagues say that George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, has a rare knack of putting people at ease. They are also quick to cite his readiness to cut red tape; or to voice an opinion on matters that displease him. Kistiakowsky has devoted most of his life to fighting those things that displease him: first the Bolsheviks, then the Nazis, and again the Communists...
...West Point chemistry class one day in 1854, Cadet James Abbot Whistler was asked to discuss silicon. He began: "Silicon is a gas." "That will do, Mr. Whistler," said the professor-and shortly thereafter Cadet Whistler was handed his discharge papers. In later years, when he had made himself one of the finest painters of his day, he liked to say: "If silicon had been a gas, I would have been a general...
Having next revised his name (dropping "Abbot" as gloomy and substituting his mother's name McNeill), he went to work on his character. He decided to be a West Point-trained officer & gentleman, and though his difficulties with chemistry brought his military career to a sudden halt, he kept what he regarded as his military manners to the end. Moreover, he held that the rudeness of Englishmen (amongst whom he spent most of his life) was in no way a result of his rudeness to them but simply a consequence of their not having had the advantage...
...speakers will include: George A. Macomber '19, president of the Cambridge Trust Company, who will talk about "Small Financial Organizations"; Kendall G. Russell '46, whose subject is "The Young Entrepreneur"; and S. Abbot Smith '18, who will advise on "Developing the Small Business...