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CLOSED--Bertram Hall, Everett House, 55 Garden Street, Gilman House, Moors Hall, Saville House...
Soon the company spread. On the profits, the tea company opened new red-fronted stores in surrounding towns, started wagon routes to sell tea & spices to farm wives, changed the company's name to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Partner Gilman soon sold out and retired on his profits, but Hartford plugged on. By 1880, when his plump, 16-year-old son George quit school to become his cashier, he had 100 stores...
Calling penicillin "an allergic hazard," Captain Robert L. Gilman reported that reactions in pre-sensitized patients are marked by "chills, fever, prostration, arthritic symptoms and shock." Recovery takes a long time, and there may be serious relapses. The ultimate absurdity, according to Oilman: using penicillin to treat vague complaints when the patient is actually suffering from a reaction to penicillin itself...
...letter lying on his desk. "Dear Sir," it said. "I am engaged in perfecting a plan which shall afford women opportunities for carrying their studies forward further than it is possible for them to do in this country (except possibly at Smith) . . ." The letter was signed by one Arthur Gilman, a Cambridge historian...
Eliot wrote Gilman that he could use several Harvard faculty members. Gilman approached selected instructors. He received 53 replies--44 of them were acceptances, and Arthur Gilman was off on the greatest experiment of his life, "The Society for Collegiate Instruction of Women...