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...Nathaniel Faxon, Director of the hospital, and Miss Sally Johnson, Superintendent of Nurses and Principal of the School of Nursing, will be the speakers...
...Radio Reader (CBS, Monday through Friday, 9:15-9:30 a.m. E.W.T.), another bookish experiment. Invitation to Learning's sensible Mark Van Doren (TIME, Nov. 24) started the program by reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which offered housewives a change of pace from other sin-and-suffer programs, gave bedfast patients in hospitals something worth listening to. Van Doren makes no attempt at Dramatic emphasis but reads articulately and quietly. He opens with a summary of the dramatic situation, reads 14 minutes (without skipping), stops when his time runs out. If listeners like the program (first...
...varsity rifle team: Laurence A. Davis '42, Peter L. Gill '43, John H. Powell '43, Malcolm J. Rowe '42, Lawrence K. Shaul '42, and Alan B. Shaw '44, Manager; and Minor Numerals to the following members of the freshman rifle team: Daniel J. Crowley, Jr., Louis Gerstley, 3d, Nathaniel C. Nash, 4th, Manager; Guerdon H. Nelson, Albert C. Petite, and Irwin E. Spalding...
...Nathaniel Bowditch was born in Salem in 1773. His father, Habakkuk, was un educated, but was said to be "not destitute of powers of mind," and was best remembered by his pastor for "his knowledge of the Scriptures and his extraordinary consumption...
Often hungry, young Nathaniel attended Salem's best school whose only equipment was a dictionary. There he learned to spell honorificabilitudinity by chanting it syllable by syllable with the other children each morning. He also evinced a precocious talent for arithmetic. But his real education began when he was apprenticed to a firm of ship's chandlers. He began to teach himself after closing hours in his attic room or in the kitchen while minding his employer's baby...