Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations on your excellent article! "Fosdick's First" is almost perfect. May I add one factor that, perhaps, would make your write-up more complete? I make this suggestion believing it is due the Rockefellers to mention this interest of theirs. I refer to their very generous appropriations over a period of years to Negro education, which work your splendid article did not mention...
...time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once there was a seal (not from the zoo) loose on nearby Pelham Parkway, and they went out and captured him to add to the collection. And once a shipment of gopher snakes arrived at the zoo frozen like walking sticks, and had to be thawed out before they went on exhibition...
...hour pay raise granted Aug. 1 to 750,000 non-train railroad workers (clerks, signalmen, etc.) will cost $100,000,000. The five big brotherhoods of railway trainmen for a month have threatened to strike unless given a 20% raise. This would add $116,000,000 a year and the roads have refused point-blank to grant the full amount on the grounds that these workers are already very well paid.† A raise similar to that given to all other employes would cost some $30,000,000 yearly...
Delighted to see my old friend, "Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland" in TIME (Aug. 30) , I would like to add a story about him which was told me several years ago by one of those present. In 1926 His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown...
This building, the Widener Library, contains approximately 2,500,000 books, while every year we add approximately 120,000 to keep up with the newer volumes published. The other million or so books of the University are housed in the various special libraries of the Houses and various departments of Harvard...