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...Sabbath day, according to Genesis, was not established in Paradise. God ended his work on the seventh day, and blessed it and sanctified it. He did not command Adam and Eve to observe that day as a day of rest. There is no evidence that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or any of the other Patriarchs observed the Sabbath. Nor is there evidence that when the Israelites came out of Egypt had they never heard of it. Hence their surprise on receiving double rations of manna on the sixth day (Ex. 16:22), so that they might rest on the Sabbath...
...President Hoover was described last week by Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, bibliophile, as the greatest book collector in the White House since Thomas Jeffer- son. Said Dr. Rosenbach: "On all his journeys he gathers volumes that in time will be valuable to the student. In China in 1899 he gathered a most comprehensive collection of books on China and the Chinese people." This he gave to Stanford University. It became the nucleus of the great Chinese library there. Dr. Rosenbach described how he had informed President Coolidge that the first edition (1865) of Alice in Wonderland...
...existing complete first edition collections of Walter Scott, a set of Shakespeare formerly belonging to Abraham Lincoln, some rare editions of Edmund Spenser's works, and a specially printed standard Book of Common Prayer are now on exhibition in the upper Treasure Room of Widener Library...
Ranked in scientific achievement with Newton and Einstein, Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, last week began his final contribution to physics. Again and again delayed?by illness, the collapse of delicate machinery, minute improvements in apparatus?Dr. Michelson stepped up to his corrugated steel, mile-long test tube stretching along the valley near Santa Ana, Calif., pressed a button, started whirling the tiny 32-sided mirror that is to determine once and for all the exact velocity of light...
Died. Edward Payson Bradstreet, 100, oldest Yale graduate (class of 1853, which had 108 graduates), oldest Ohio lawyer; in Cincinnati, Ohio. His most famed historic experience was a chess game with Abraham Lincoln in 1858. This occurred in a hotel room in Hannibal. Mo. When Mr. Lincoln heard his steamboat whistle blow, he yielded the game. Oldest Yale graduate is now Dr. Virgil Maro Dow, 97, of New Haven (class of 1856, to which the late Chauncey Mitchell Depew belonged...