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Although $1,265,000 has been raised, Bennington will have no faculty endowment. Tuition charges will be flexible, will be fitted to all costs. That such a scheme may be expensive need not terrify indigent girls of talent. Full scholarships will be available for one-fourth of the student body...
...chairman in 1896-97. From 1890 to 1896 he was board chairman and president of American Cotton Oil Co., which he reorganized from American Cotton Oil Trust. After resigning from Winslow, Lanier & Co. he was U. S. representative of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin (1893-1914) whose subscription to one-fourth of a $100,000,000 gold loan to the U. S. Treasury helped avert panic in 1896. A backer of Edison Electric Light Co., he organized the International Niagara Commission which was headed by Lord Kelvin, famed British scientist. As president (1890-99) of Cataract Construction...
Left. By the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, president of Campbell Soup Co.: $1 14,850,733; to his wife, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance ($100,000, life interest in one-fourth the estate); his son John Thompson Jr. (life interest in onefourth); his four daughters, Ethel, Margaret, Charlotte, Mrs. Nathaniel Peter Hill (the remaining half) ; all to be held in trust until the majority of John Thompson...
Dutch Empire, Quiet, matronly Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands refuses to assume the style of "Empress," but she has, in Sumatra, Java and Borneo an empire 31 times as large as her tiny kingdom, one-fourth the size of India and containing 40,892,000 subjects of her modest crown...
...Crile's experiment toward creating living material out of dead is highly exciting. Basic material of all beings is protoplasm. Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water. Protoplasm always contains at least twelve elements: calcium, carbon, chlorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, sulphur. The living combination of these is exceedingly complex. Best of chemists have been unable to decipher the protoplasmic interrelations. Could they do "so, they could make protoplasm in their laboratories...