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...Died. Augustus Hemenway, 77, one-time (1890-91) member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Harvard overseer and donor of Harvard's Hemenway gymnasium; in Readville, Mass...
...will set sail for the Orient, member of a commission appointed by a group of potent Protestant laymen to study missions in the Far East. In 1934 (aged 70) she will retire from her presidency. Other mission examiners will be: Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard (chairman); President Clarence Augustus Barbour of Brown University; Dean Frederic Campbell Woodward of the University of Chicago; Dr. William Pierson Merrill of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson of the University...
...beware the blood on the glistening wings overhead. But the show had to be postponed three hours on account of bad flying weather and around 3 p.m. it looked as if the spectacle would have to be called off entirely. Black clouds hung over Connecticut. But Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who was to lead his squadron of Missouri National Guard observation planes, flew off to the rendezvous to inspect the weather. Like oldtime cavalry commanders who preferred their personal mounts to Army issue, he flew his own fleet Lockheed-Sirius to Ossining, reported fair flying conditions. At Mitchel Field...
...President and Fellows of Harvard University are to receive the sum of $70,000 to be used for the benefit of the Peabody Museum according to the will of the late Augustus Hemenway '79 which was filed for probate at Dedham yesterday...
Harvard lost one of its most conspicuous benefactors with the death yesterday at his home in Readville of Augustus Hemenway '79, donor of the gymnasium which bears his name. Mr. Hemenway, who was born in Boston in 1853, made the gift on his graduation; the gymnasium, completed in 1875 and greatly enlarged by the donor in 1895, replaced the small, octagonal Rogers Building as an indoor athletic center, and was considered at the time the finest of its kind in the world...