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...university professorships with "roving commissions" among the departments, but "without portfolios" and free from departmental restrictions and administrative duties, yet free to carry on investigation in any laboratory in the university; and second, the establishment of new Harvard national scholarships. But for the latter he has not had to await the coming of the new century. The historian and philosopher Henry Osborn Taylor, of the class of '78, approaching his eightieth year, has led the way by the endowment of the first...
...Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give out chil dren's feeds at Skibo," Piper Grant was bundled off by Carnegie Son-in-Law Roswell Miller to await jubilee celebrations on Nov. 25. That day Walter Damrosch will conduct a choral-orchestral program at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; Secretary of State Hull will address a gathering in Washington's Pan American Union Building, built with Carnegie funds ; Pittsburgh will honor its onetime first citizen; more than...
...handsome young man who begs a meal of her on Christmas day, and to return her generosity the cad steals her cigarette case. Repentant, he returns a few days later and while restoring himself to Miss Herries graces draws her attention to his wife and child who await him without, in the full sense. At this moment his starved spouse faints and Miss Herries has her brought into the house while Abbott, the young beggar, summons a doctor. Mrs. Abbott cannot be moved, the doctor says, so Miss Herries is forced to put the Abbott's up. Gradually Abbott assumes...
...hours the lost pair stumbled over the barren Valley floor, their feet blistered, their lips cracked, their tongues swollen. Often crossing their own footprints, they realized they were circling hopelessly. At last, completely exhausted, they lay down beside a dry mudhole to await their fate. There last week a searching airplane pilot finally spied little Agnes feebly waving a blanket...
...Having been agreed for some time on a partial report covering all other features of the Social Security Bill, conferees recessed until this week to await completion of a complex compromise aimed at breaking their long deadlock on the Senate's amendment permitting private old-age pension systems...