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There was a time when Harvard College boasted an endowment of $5,190,000 and a telephone. That was on August 30, 1886 when John L. Taylor was given a position as junior clerk in the Wadsworth House Bursar's office. Today, 50 years afterward, as Auditor, he deals with an endowment of $128,800,000, transacts his business through one of the University's 6000 phone extensions...
...Taylor climbed the first rung of University hierarchy in 1888, an advancement which he owes to a theft and subsequent hurried trip to Canada on the part of one Mr. Olmstead, his immediate superior. Approving his appointment in a letter now kept in the Auditor's desk, President Eliot described him as a "meritorious and useful assistant...
...thought this no excessive charge. In his paper for Sept. 12, 1850, he extolled "the quality of that voice, so pure, so sweet, so fine, so whole and all-pervading. . . . We never heard tones which in, their sweetness went so far. They brought the most distant and ill-seated auditor close...
...Monsignor Domenico Jorio, secretary of the Congregation of the Sacraments; Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean of the Sacred Roman Rota (the Church's trial court); Monsignor Carlo Cremonesi, papal Grand Almoner; Monsignor Vincenzo La Puma, secretary of the Congregation of the Affairs of Religious; Monsignor Frederico Cattani Amadori, papal auditor, secretary of the Apostolic Signatura (Supreme Tribunal of the Roman Curia); Monsignor Domenico Mariani, treasurer of the papal Ministries; Rev. Pietro Boetto, S. J., assistant for Italy to the General of the Society of Jesus...
Last week Secretary Clements met these charges with an auditor's report on Townsend finances since July 1934, before which date he said the organization had collected only the "pitiful sum" of $6,850.83. Receipts from dues, donations sale of official literature and paraphernalia were $636,803.21. Expenditures for salaries, advertising, equipment, etc., were $585,446.42. Dr. Townsend received $7,532.75-a salary of $50 per week plus "about $74 a week" for expenses. On the same basis Clements...