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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubtless considerations of space prevented your article of today from commenting in more detail upon Professor Spalding's career as an educator. If Harvard owes the foundation of the Division of Music to Professor Paine, its remarkable growth is due entirely to the insight and policies of Professor Spalding. He realized the extent to which "musical appreciation" might enter the lives of the general student, and his lead in this respect has been followed all over the country. He was among the first to recognize Professor Davison's capacity for interesting the undergraduate in choral music, with results which...
Much of this growth took place in the University Museum where the chief laboratories for botany and zoology were located. But the Bussey Institution, which had been newly organized, was the seat of no small part of this change...
...Medical School began to enter into more intimate relations with biology. In the beginning its interests were almost entirely with materia medica, then with bacteriology, and finally they shifted to a full appreciation of the significance of biology for medicine. With this striking growth of the organic sciences it was not surprising that the old quarters and equipment should have become antiquated and inadequate...
Porter names eight lines of business in which Astor engaged; the two most usually connected with his name are Manhattan real estate and the American Fur Company. Astor was one of the first to bank on Manhattan's rapid growth. In 20 years he invested well over $700,000 in Manhattan property. "The funds employed came almost entirely from the profits of Astor's China trade, which, in its turn, had been based principally upon his success as a dealer in furs, and also as a general merchant...
...history of Wadsworth House is somewhat different, for it has been one of slow growth. When Dr. Worcester came it was absolutely inadequate for the needs of the University. Chiefly through his efforts it has become at least serviceable. All this reconstruction was done under the burden of an inexcusably small budget. But even now the laboratory facilities are confined, the waiting room is crowded, there are no X-ray machines, and the whole quarters are too small for the personnel which inhabits them. That Wadsworth House has been found wanting is conclusively proved by the fact that several years...