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Harvard was one of the recipients of a bequest totalling $25,000, it was revealed in the will of the Reverend Mr. Alva Roy Scott, made public in Knoxville, Tennessee, yesterday. The sum of $10,000 was bequeathed to Harvard for the endowment of a lectureship on the general subject of "Human Betterment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BEQUEATHED $10,000 FOR LECTURE ENDOWMENT | 2/21/1931 | See Source »

Last week despatches stated that Thomas Alva Edison had invited Dr. Lange to come and work with him. Dr. Lange declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sun Power | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Boris Luban, a celebrated artist now living in New York City, and whose recent portrait of Thomas Alva Edison has caused much favorable comment, has offered to the Phillips Brooks House Association a portrait of Bishop Phillips Brooks '55, which will be executed in connection with the coming observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUBAN TO PAINT BROOKS PORTRAIT FOR P. B. H. | 1/23/1931 | See Source »

Babe Ruth. James Joseph Tunney, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Spencer Chaplin would be named princes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...Thomas Alva Edison last week again knuckled to the U. S. insistency that a celebrity be a pundit on all manner of things. His medium was Review of Reviews (monthly). Thus from his seat at West Orange, N. J. did Thomas Edison pontificate de rebus sanitatis: Are there certain definite fields in which the research of the future will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Edison: De Rebus Sanitatis | 1/5/1931 | See Source »

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