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Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...
Died. Edward Stephen Harkness, 66. famed but retiring charitarian, who spent his life giving away the fortunes he inherited from his father (Standard Oil), his mother, a brother; of intestinal influenza and complications; in Manhattan. Edward Harkness' secret was the total of his gifts; the known sum exceeded $100,000,000. His beneficiaries included Yale (his alma mater) and Harvard, where his millions provided U. S. versions of the Oxford college system; Columbia (a library, medical funds); Phillips Exeter Academy and other preparatory schools; the Commonwealth Fund (upwards of $50,000,000 for rural hospitals, medical research, education...
...than his 52 years. He walks a great deal (often at night), reads rapidly, copiously, sleeps later than most prelates. (He rose at 9:30 the day his appointment was made public.) Archbishop Stritch has been in Milwaukee since 1930, has greatly endeared himself to the city as a charitarian. Says he, "As long as two pennies are ours, one of them belongs to the poor." He has let relief needs supersede those of his Cathedral, partly destroyed by fire in 1935, and still not completely repaired. Apparently as anti-Coughlinite as Cardinal Mundelein was, last autumn he wrote...
...Month of October is also the month of Hospital drives, Community Chest drives. For the U. S.'s No. 1 charitarian rich man, John D. Rockefeller Jr., it was a busy week, with not only charity but a ceremony attendant on the presentation by the French Government of the Diplome de Grand Prix to Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes. Meanwhile, at one of his father's endowments, the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Chicago, would gladly take over Oxford's Rhodes scholars during...
...congregation of Priests of the Mission was founded by St. Vincent de Paul, great & good charitarian, at the Priory of St. Lazare in Paris...