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...Gray Herbarium, situated in the Botanic Garden, is now regarded as the safest, most conveniently arranged, and most fully equipped herbarium building in the world, it is stated in the article on the Herbarium to appear in the next issue of the University Guide in April...
...first lectures ever given by the Harvard Medical School were delivered in Holden Chapel, and the first degrees in Medicine were awarded in 1788 it is shown in the article on the Medical School to appear next spring in the sixth issue of the University Guide. In the article is shown the growth of this department of the University a growth analogous to that characteristic of most of the other departments graduate and professional schools of Harvard...
...always plain that Europe and the United States are lacking in mutual understanding. . . . They appear to think that we are going to do exactly what they would do if they had our chance. . . . It is befitting that we should pursue our course . . . in accordance with the requirements of conscience and righteousness...
...Slavic History, a series of 20 paintings so enormous that Alfons Mucha, the artist, has been as busy with stepladders as with lexicons. For more than 18 years the work has been under way. The subjects range from earliest Slavic history to allegorical, exuberant prophecy. Sages, religious leaders, rulers appear in glorious pageantry. The most magnificent picture of the series, a canvas as large as the façade of a sizeable barn, depicts the liberation of Russian serfs by Tsar Alexander II in 1861. In a grey, snowy twilight a crowd of the poor are gathered in Moscow...
...Opel began making sewing machines in Russelheim when Yankee volunteers retreated from Bull Run. Early in the 80's Founder Adam bought an English bicycle for his son, and in 1886 added a bicycle factory to the Opel works! Clever merchandizer, he knew selfconscious Germans would hesitate to appear ridiculous. Accordingly, he provided Opel halls where amateurs might learn to ride Opel bicycles. The Opel cycle factory is today the largest in the world...