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...first few minutes the film works up to a climax when bulky Jean Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) on the point of murdering his benefactor in bed, finds his dagger has been turned powerless by kindness. Thereafter, come only a series of episodes, each of decreasing inten- sity, showing Valjean's achievements punctuated again and again by the fateful Javert...
...desire to honor the memory of John Barnard, 1700, a number of book-lovers in the University, under the name of the John Barnard Associates, have founded a group to further the work of the great bibliophile and benefactor of Harvard University...
...year held at the Harvard Club of Boston last night, a tribute was paid to the late J.W. Hallowell '01. It was announced that Chester C. Bolton '05 of Cleveland, Ohio, had been appointed a member of the Council in place of the late C.C. Stillman '09, noted benefactor to the University, who died last summer...
...with $50,000 to invest select ten young men and women from families known to be prolific, and let him set them up as five married couples in Ontario, on the promise that if any couple wins the prize they will turn it over to their benefactor. The sum of $50,000 would easily cover the support of these people, and a doctor and nurse to advise and care i them in a scientific way. Let it be announced that this scientific attempt to win the prize was being made, and other contestants would soon drop...
...beneficence to the University; but that they are also satisfied that he would submit his private wishes in this particular to public considerations, and are convinced that this mode of perpetuating his enlarged and generous views is not merely a proper indication of gratitude to a distinguished benefactor but essentially conductive to all those interests of the University, which he had so much at heart; and therefore they feel authorized to adopt this measure...