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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yard did not take on its present aspect really until University Hall was built in 1815. Before that time the Yard must have presented a shabby appearance, with an untidy wood-pile of mammoth dimensions where University Hall now stands. The impressive simplicity of University Hall's granite front is an innovation of the last 90 years, for previous to that it was hidden by a massive iron portico of indescribable ugliness. The rabbit warrens in the cellars of this building which minor University officials call their offices owe all their sunlight and air to the removal of this porch...
...Round Hill, South Dartmouth, Mass., in a dirigible hangar which Col. Edward Howland Robinson (Hetty's son) Green loaned, three of President Karl Taylor Compton's M. I. T. men have built an electrostatic high voltage generator to compete with lightning's violence. Last week in Chicago President Compton announced that shortly the machine would be ready to operate. In preliminary workouts it produced six million volts, would have produced ten million had not the difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert...
...plate trade points to the bulky, genial, 200-lb. president of McKeesport Tin Plate as its only character who even remotely approaches the legendary trio of Moore, Reid & Leeds. Edwin Robert Crawford learned steel as an auditor but instead of picking the high road of promotion to glory, he built his own plant in 1902. McKeesport grew up to be one of the largest independent makers of plate. Individualistic, patriarchal to employes, President Crawford proudly boasts that by staggering work he has laid off no men, that he has paid 1929 dividends throughout the Depression. His plants, thoroughly modern...
...intellectual passion for more than 50 years. Of his land school, Dr. Ely said last week: "It is something epoch-making." To understand what he meant it is necessary to have some conception of what land-Land whence taxes come, Land on which houses are built. Land which produces things-has meant to Dr. Ely. When he left Johns Hopkins in 1892, Dr. Ely went to the University of Wisconsin, practiced real estate, studied housing, organized an Institute for Economic Research. The main purpose of the Institute was to study what Dr. Ely calls the "dynamic problems" of the land...
Five years ago, when the old schoolhouse in his native Van Hornesville. N. Y., burned down, Mr. Young gave a new one whose eventual cost may be $1,000,000. The handsome, well-equipped school, with teachers' homes across the way, was built by local artisans without the aid of contractor. On a bronze tablet listing the builders Mr. Young appears as "Rocking Chair Consultant." In his speech last week he called his school, with its radio, cinema, library, swimming pool and playgrounds, "the social centre of the community." Said he: "In that field it is doing what...