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...long wanted a planetarium to show visitors how the planets revolve about the Sun, how the Sun moves among the other stars. The problem of getting money for the planetarium stumped Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn while he was president of the museum. By last week his successor Frederick Trubee Davison, son and brother of bankers, had invented an ingenious means: a quasi-public corporation called the Planetarium Authority, similar to the popular and profitable Port of New York Authority which builds toll tunnels, toll bridges and other self-liquidating port improvements. Such Authorities may issue bonds. The Planetarium Authority would...
...Davison '06, Glee Club director, announced last night that he will take a leave of absence next year, and that G. W. Woodworth, now acting as assistant director, will assume his place while he is away...
There have been rumors that Dr. Davison would resign at the end of this year but he definitely stated that he had no intention of giving up his place for several years to come. His regular sabbatical leave of absence should have come this year, but he postponed it because of the opening of the new chapel...
These two organizations, have weathered the storms of Harvard indifference nobly, until now, under the leadership of Dr. Davison, the Glee Club has won the title of "finest American College Glee Club" and the Orchestra can be compared favorably to any other organization of its kind. Harvard can well take pride in these two representatives of its culture...
...great American Museum of Natural History last week showed lesser museums a new way of dodging a deficit. The museum has 35 exhibition halls, 500 employes. Frederick Trubee Davison, the American's new president, and George Herbert Sherwood, its harried director, have found that their available $1,600,000 is $123,000 too little. To save $50,000 they did the obvious-discharged help. (Wages had been cut long ago.) Their new trick saved the balance. They closed exhibition halls in rotation, ten at a time, except Saturdays and Sundays when only four will be shut. The visitor...