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...with cash, scholarships, pensions, homes for poor people. Last week's medals car ried a total of $19,500 such awards ? the money being interest on a fund established in 1904 by the wrinkled little Scot, Andrew Carnegie, whose career from bobbin-boy in a cotton mill to overlord of $500,000,-000 worth of oil, iron, steel and railroads, had taught him the worth of instantaneous courage...
From O. Bryant '04 the Museum has received an original Japanese painting and a number of Japanese prints; also a piece of Italian bobbin lace, possibly of the seventeenth century, and 17 ancient gems...