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...broken in a few days, officially resolved that the project "shall henceforth bear the official title and be referred to as the Hayden Planetarium." The Press printed sketches showing the projection dome rising like a vast moon behind a façade supported by six Grecian pillars and graven with the words HAYDEN PLANETARIUM...
...Company, a combine of the chemical manufacturers of the Land of the Almighty Dollar. At Philadelphia, Frederick W. Taylor died after being ill for nine days with an attack of pneumonia, on his fifty-ninth birthday, and two hours after winding up his watch. His fellow-countrymen had graven on his tombstone : 'Frederick W. Taylor, the Father of Scientific Management.' In France, at Neuve Chapelle, meanwhile, British cannon were spitting out hundreds of thousands of shells which, like the parts of a Ford car, had been manufactured on conveyors. Never, in fact, had the world been so closely...
...walls, about to be covered by preserving paint, were at ease to think of other days. It was a proud day for those walls when they were dedicated on the hallowed ground of the predecessor of Soldiers Field. But time has passed and many scars have been graven on the memory of the walled patriarch of Harvard...
...wilderness of scholastic Harvard to the Large Lecture Room in Fogg at 12 today. There Professor Lake will read the Bible as it should be read, and he will interpret it in such fashion that his listeners will wish that his words, like Job's, might be graven in stone...
Boston's Library Trustees' shield, designed in 1878 by the late Augustus Saint-Gaudens, has as supporters two nude children (male). On complaints from a group of citizens led by Rev. Michael A. Gearin, Mayor James Michael Curley requested last week that the supporters of the shield graven on the facade of the Mission Hill Public Library should have their pudenda shrouded in granite ribbons. Whether all reproductions of the shield should be similarly ribboned then became a hot argument in Boston...