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...hundred rare Chinese books, salvaged from the war torn areas of central and eastern China are now resting safely in a fireproof room in the cellar of Boylston Library, after a year and a half of work in China by Dr. A. Kaiming Chin, head librarian of the Harvard Yenching Institute...
...this first bean-spilling, gardenia-loving Grover Whalen replied that the Fair Corporation could not provide safe housing for a costly art exhibition unless it erected a permanent, fireproof building, unlike the temporary structures planned for the Fair. Instead of this, he said, arrangements were being made with the Metropolitan Museum (eight miles from the fair grounds) "and other like institutions" to hold exhibitions presumably like Chicago's. This message, which also appeared in the Post, was brought to the regular meeting between the artists' representatives and the Fair Board of Design. Mr. Manship's fellow artists...
Icons from Tibetan monasteries, priceless additions to the Manchu collection, and a modern fireproof rare-book room are only a few of the recent accessions of the Yenching Institute in Boylston Hall...
...ports in 120 foreign lands. It does not need tramps. It does not need superliners-("The American Merchant Marine is a service proposition"). Overseas air lines, over which the Commission asked jurisdiction, may cut sharply into the superliner traffic. "The American contribution to North Atlantic travel should be fireproof, vibrationless, attractive and economical vessels of reasonable size and speed, distinguished by the utmost in safety and comfort . . . available for National defense. . . ." For the rest, the U. S. should build fairly standardized combination freight & passenger types. However, the Commission's first proposed type-the so-called C-2 carrying...
...Yale is an institution of higher learning supported by loyal alumni and wealthy friends. It has modern, fireproof buildings within five minutes of the Hotel Taft and also a distinguished faculty composed of well-known professors...