Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continuation of the publication by the Crimson of President Lowell's report to the Board of Overseers for 1926-27, the following section on the bequests made to the University the past academic year is given...
...William Eliot Fund: For Landscape Architecture 115,146.77Estate of H. C. Frick: Additional unrestricted 48,900.00General Education Board: Endowment of the Department of Ophthalmology and for salaries 188,400.00"From a graduate": For the construction of The Le Baron Russell Briggs Memorial Baseball Cage 125,000.00The Harvard Fund 242,900.15Harvard Medical School in China: "for the establishment of scholarships or fellowships to be administered by the Trustees of the Peking Union Medical College..." 47,610.94The Harvard War Memorial 189,228.00International Education Board: For construction and endowment of a Southern Astronomical Observatory Station at Bloemfontein...
First Civil Governor of the Canal Zone, acting Quartermaster General during the World War, a member of the War Industries Board, Major Gen. Goethals retired in 1919. He sat in a Wall Street Office and remodeled strange, stubborn places of the earth as a distinguished consulting engineer...
...wife voluntarily made good, though he knew a legal quibble which invalidated his endorsement. Factual was and is the Society for Savings, a bank operated in the interests of depositor-members, with which Mr. Herrick early associated himself and of which he is now Chairman of the Board. Success and wealth were his with the turn of the century. From then Myron Timothy Herrick enlarged his vision to scan future conquests...
...Institute of Phrenologists, inspected the files of Manhattan hatters and read character into skulls shaped like bathtubs, pears, eggs. But, said he: "It is the contents and not the symmetry of a skull which counts in the long run." Perhaps that is why numerologists, crystal-gazers, table-tippers, ouija-board-pushers, rhythmical dancers and all-round yogis stop at nothing in time, space, mind or matter. Then there is the New World Water Cult, with rooms in New York, Philadelphia and Cleveland, whose members sit with their bare feet in hot water and with cold wet towels around their heads...