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...More than $5,000,000 of the fund to be raised will be used to endow professorships, so that Mr. Holt can carry out his plan to assemble at Rollins a group of great teachers who have the rare gift of teaching and who possess the nobility of character to inspire youth...
Catalysis. Professor Hugh Stott Taylor of Princeton University proposed that U. S. industry endow a university to discover all there is to know about catalytic agents, the "marrying parsons" of chemistry, which cause other substances to interact without themselves reacting...
Harvard has many such towering figures in her past. Among the blackrobed figures that filed out of Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon, there are propably men who will endow Harvard with the indirect approbation of their fellows. But in any Quinquennial Catalogue of Harvard graduates there are to be found names which are not inscribed on walls and gates, names which are suffixed by no honorary degrees, yet names which embody much of the best that Harvard stands for. And he who is optimistic about the future of Harvard College, he who believes it to be more today than an outmoded...
...Chairman of the Conference, made a gracious announcement: "Beginning immediately, women may apply for licenses to pilot commercial aircraft in all countries which are represented on the Commission. . . .* We have always been accustomed to regard women as ministering angels, even though we have hitherto hesitated to endow them officially with wings." Further Motions Carried: 1) The letters "P A N"* were adopted as the airman's code call for help, except in cases of extreme distress, when "S O S"š will be used. 2) The word "aerodina" will be submitted to all governments with the recommendation that...