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...widely dispersed chorus on "Take Me Back to Dear Old Tech." The main speaker-"main" because, though they knew his good works, they had never known his voice-was at his home in Rochester, N. Y. The Tech men eagerly awaited his words, the words of George Eastman, camera man and music lover, who had contributed over 15 millions to their alma mater yet had steadfastly refused to address a Tech audience since they first began asking him in 1916. At that, his words came from behind the barrier that space and wavelengths afford retiring natures. But to the farflung...
From Rochester, N. Y., locus of the Eastman Kodak Works, came news. An experiment had been made with aerial photography at night by flashlight. A Martin bomber 3000 feet up dropped 50 pounds of flashlight powder which was detonated in midair. Seven special cameras and a cinema machine clicked. There was a swift and powerful flash-it lasted only one-fiftieth of a second-then a tremendous explosion "rocked the buildings," "broke windows" (a few). The photographs were a "success." "Useful in war," said observers...
...world, like a catalytic agent, without itself changing character. Purely, austerely scientific are the training and practice of a modern chemist. Of enormous commercial value, and hence of social significance, are his works where he is employed, he and a thousand brother experimenters, by interests like Du Pont, Ford, Eastman, Bell and the U. S. Government...
...scheme: the interest received by donors is free of income tax until its aggregate equals the principal of the gift; income to the donor is guaranteed by the entire resources of the recipient institution; the institution enjoys an immediate increase in capital, especially desirable in contingencies such as the Eastman offer above cited; likely donors may be induced, and given opportunity, to make bequests, and see their fruits, before dying...
Said Fund-Chairman Clarence H. Kelsey: "The general trend in making gifts to educational institutions is more and more toward doing so during the lifetime of the giver rather than to make such bequests in a will. In studying the recent benefactions of John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mr. Eastman, James B. Duke and many others, it will be found that these philanthropists are particularly interested in placing their gifts in the hands of their beneficiaries during their lifetime...