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...Ward Beecher, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wendell Phillips (whose address "The Scholar in a Republic" delivered at the one hundredth anniversary of the chapter, in 1881, ranks with Emerson's "The American Scholar" among the greatest orations of its type); Carl Schurz, Charles William Eliot, Henry Cabot Lodge, Woodrow Wilson, Josiah Royce, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The names of the poets include Everett, Emerson, and Holmes; William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Francis Brot Harte, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Robert Frost, Bliss Carman, Alfred Noyes, and Stephen Vincent Benet...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi shuffled over the rose-&-yellow carpets of London's swank Grosvenor House last week to a luncheon in his honor by the old Fruitarian Society. While St. Gandhi slowly chomped grapes and baked apples, Dr. Josiah Oldfield, presiding Fruitarian, spoke...
London by this time had heard impressive rumors that Mr. Norman will soon be succeeded as Governor by that director of the Bank of England who was seemingly closest to the actual helm in the crisis fortnight ago, Sir Josiah Stamp, grizzled chairman of the great London, Midland and Scottish Railway...
...Josiah voiced ringing confidence that the superior fiscal organization and longer experience of London in handling complex international transactions will keep the City's services and the pound in brisk worldwide demand. 3) "The greatest friend of New York," concluded Sir Josiah, "could not say at the present time that New York's financial dealings with foreign countries have been characterized by a steady, courageous purpose or by intimate and far-seeing knowledge." For the cashing of bills of exchange "on any large scale a very elaborate machine of financial knowledge and financial courage is required, and this...
...82nd annual meeting of the American Chemical Society approached next week (at Buffalo), Professor Pauling's career and accomplishments were objects of many secret discussions. U.S. Chemistry has had two great rewards for its doers: the William H. Nichols Medal and the Josiah Willard Gibbs Medal...