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...coffin with built-in illumination...
...Tillet is the victim (or, as a wrestler, the beneficiary) of pituitary overdevelopment, resulting in acromegaly-enlargement of the face and jaws. The Harvardmen X-rayed his head, found the sella turcica, which houses the pituitary, considerably enlarged. They measured the tremendous, coffin-shaped face, found it 7.16 inches wide, 7.05 inches long from nose-bridge to jaw-point. They also noted huge protuberances over the eyebrows and at the back of the head, an elevation like a ridgepole from front to back of the cranium...
...succeeded by Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones (Yale '10), who further added to the school's reputation. Dr. Bayne-Jones's most noteworthy achievement: establishing Yale as one of the nation's foremost cancer research centres, by means of the $10,000,000 Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research...
...Manhattan medical centre to be created by combining the Presbyterian Hospital (of which he was later president) and Columbia University School of Medicine. Mr. Harkness made the medical centre a fact, eventually gave to it and to Columbia some $30,000,000. Another Yale friend was Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, later president of Union Theological Seminary. Mr. Harkness gave the seminary $1,250,000. Still another friend was George Parmly Day, now Yale's treasurer. To Yale, Alumnus Hark ness gave some $25,000,000. When in 1922 Edward Harkness decided that he needed an assistant to direct...
...institution has never seemed both ered by Harry Ward's bizarre (for a churchman) political views: Union Theo logical Seminary, headed by rich, well born, liberal Henry Sloane Coffin (Skull & Bones, Yale '97). At Union, Red Harry Ward may presumably go on teaching Christian Ethics so long as he is of reason ably sound mind and body...