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Judge Grover Moscowitz opined: "If the bank chose to select as its president a man who was dishonest and a thief, that is not Dr. Butler's fault." He ordered the securities returned. A speech to the Massachusetts Civic League by Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell...
...expensive out of all proportion to the power produced. This is the defect of the commonest solar machines which have appeared so far-huge concave reflectors which focus on a boiler, make steam to drive small engines. One of the most optimistic U. S. experimenters, Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott of Smithsonian Institution, has invented a "sun cooker" with which he roasts meat, bakes bread. Two years ago Germany's Dr. Bruno Lange discovered a way of converting sunlight into electric current a hundredfold more efficiently than had been done before (TIME...
...statement from President Conant late-yesterday indicated that he and Charles A. Coolidge '81, of the Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch and Abbott firm, were unable to come to an agreement on the placing of the James A. Shannon memorial shaft on Soldiers Field. Coolidge, whose firm designed the stone, is understood to favor a position next to the Haughton Memorial, where attempts at setting up a preliminary foundation were frustrated Monday by Dennis Enright, superintendent of the Field...
Charles A. Coolidge '81, senior member of Coolidge, Shepley, Bullfinch, and Abbott, designers of the new James A. Shannon memorial, will confer with President Conant today on the question of a position of the new monument to the man who trained Harvard Reserve Officers during the war. Due to the pressure of University business the President was unable to meet the architect yesterday as was originally planned, but it is understood that no further developments have arisen in regard to the placing of the stone. Although further announcements in connection with the position of the memorial were not forthcoming from...
Those who judge professors by their eloquence or skill in "spoon-feeding" ought seduously to avoid Professor Abbott's lectures. I hope there are some others who believe that the true office of a teacher is to suggest and guide rather than to stuff or entertain. (Name Withheld by Request...