Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Education Board of the Rockefeller Foundation has offered Harvard University $400,000 to be used in the construction of a new million-dollar physical laboratory, provided that the University raise the other $600,000, it was announced yesterday by Theodore Lyman '97, Director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. According to the proposed plans, the building will cost $500,000 and $100,000 will be spent on equipment. The remaining $400,000 will be devoted to an endowment for the laboratory...
...laboratory will be situated between the Cruft Laboratory and the Jefferson Laboratory, and will be connected to both these buildings...
...proposed building will be devoted entirely to research. Into it will be moved a large part of the advanced work now being carried on in Jefferson and Cruft. The space made available in the Jefferson Laboratory will be refitted to form modern teaching equipment for undergraduates...
...present, Jefferson and Cruft laboratories are the only buildings at Harvard devoted to Physics. Jefferson, the main building, was built more than 40 years ago, while Cruft which is devoted principally to the instruction of graduate students and research work by students and teachers, was built...
Only two Chief Justices were promoted from the bench. To one of these, John Rutledge of South Carolina, chosen by President Washington to succeed John Jay, the Senate refused confirmation and he had to resign. Jefferson observed sarcastically to Monroe that Washington's purpose had apparently been "to keep five mouths always gaping for one sugar plum."* But in 1910, when President Taft successfully elevated Edward Douglass White, the precedent was broken...