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Owing to the growth of the collections and consequent need of more space, as well as to insure safety from fire, the entire building was taken down and rebuilt during the years 1909 to 1915. To secure maximum safety from fire, all woodwork was avoided, even the furniture being chiefly of steel. Since then very little change has been made in the external equipment...
That Harvard students have brought the art of dressing to the greatest perfection attainable on this side of the Atlantic is an unquestionable fact. It is a fact, however, that has perhaps not been sufficiently impressed upon all: and the entering class is to all appearances in need of a few words upon this all-important subject. The following lines, then are particularly addressed to Freshmen...
...however so greatly had the demands upon the school increased both for instruction and for opportunities for research that plans were again drawn up for a Medical School building on a much larger scale than was necessary to meet the immediate need for larger quarters. These plans called for the acquisition of a tract of land sufficiently large to accommodate the proposed buildings and also to afford space for hospitals to be erected and conducted in close association with the School. Over 26 acres were secured situated in the outskirts of Boston bounded by Francis Street, Huntington Avenue and Longwood...
Railroader Loree, a massive oldtimer with a beard like General Grant's, was emphatic about national defense. He said: "Perhaps no nation stands so much in need of a recognition of this necessity for armed protection as does the United States, and perhaps no nation has, since the warnings of Washington, turned so resolutely away from its serious consideration Let us remember the counsel of the Yellow Knife Indian-'It will be time enough for the warrior to throw away his gun when the squaw casts away her papoose...
...undoubtedly find their place in a later volume. As it is the first volume already includes such names as Astronomer Cleve land Abbe (4 columns) ; British Baron Jeffrey Amherst (3 columns) ; President Chester A. Arthur (6 columns) ; Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum (5 columns); Actor Maurice Barrymore (2 columns). The need of such a dictionary was first voiced by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1922. Dr. Johnson was appointed editor-in-chief, and a com mittee cast about to find sufficient funds to start the work. Funds ($500,000) were speedily donated on behalf of the New York Times...