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When it was first suggested in 1833 that Philadelphia's streets be lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether...
George H. Parker, professor of Zoology, emeritus, will deliver a short paper on "Neurohumors as Activators of the Nervous System." "Vibrations in Machinery" is the subject of a speech by Jacob D. Den Hartog, assistant professor of Applied Mechanics, while Henry C. Stetson, research associate in Paleontology, will talk on "The Geology of Submarine Canyons." "High Fidelity Sound from Phonograph Records" will be discussed by Frederick V. Hunt, assistant professor of Physics and Communication Engineering...
FADE OUT-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). The third importation in a year of a prolific, English popular novelist: this one about a playwright and an actress, in a plot which only the proverbial rich grandmother can straighten...
...Kammen Music Co. published a song entitled Bei Mir Bist Du Schön, from a Jewish musical comedy (I Would If I Could) by Sholom Secunda and Jacob Jacobs. The song went practically unnoticed until last summer Johnny & George, a Negro piano team, played it at a Jewish summer resort in New York's borsch belt, then brought it to a Broadway night club. There it was heard by Saul Chaplin and Sammy Cahn, two East Side boys who had written Posin', Shoe Shine Boy, Rhythm Is Our Business, could recognize a song when they heard...
...writen a few books and I've made a few explorations, but I'd rather stake my chance of being remembered on the unwritten books of your minds." With these words and quotations from Kipling and Jacob, Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, brought to a close his last lecture at Harvard...