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Alvan Macauley, president, Packard...
...great many Harvard professors are presenting new courses this summer. Among these new offerings there are courses on research work in astronomy by W.J. Fisher, present research associate of the Astronomical laboratory; "Public Speaking and Dramatic Interpretation," by Assistant Professor F.C. Packard '20; "Abnormal Psychology," by Dr. H.A. Murray; "Human Ideals: Their Conflict and Integration in Society," by Dr. P.J.W. Pigors '24; "The History of Latin," by Assistant Professor Joshua Whatmough; "Greek History," by Professor W.S. Ferguson (first three weeks) and Assistant Professor R.P. Blake (last three weeks); "The Old Testament" and "The New Testament," by Professor Kirsopp Lake...
...Cleveland and the Gambles and Procters of Cincinnati. A purer vein of religious sentiment was springing forth in a southern county as the Anti-Saloon League. The industrial vein was becoming purer, too, as Ohio grew and diversified with rolling mills at Youngstown, rubber at Akron, motor cars (Packard) at Warren, ore and paint at Cleveland, liquor at Cincinnati. More numerous and politically potent than all were Ohio's farmers. State pride in "home grown" products was the bond used by the politicians to tie the whole State together...
...individual is less, and the corporation is more, has been shown by the comparative smallness of the estates of many founders of famed businesses. Thus James W. Packard's total estate was last week estimated at $7,000,000, whereas recent net annual profits of the Packard Motor Car Co. have been some...
...James Packard retired from active business in 1915. His house in Warren, Ohio, where he had been born, where he knew and liked all his neighbors, was decorated with a thousand gadgets for making electricity do the work of men or women. With these Mr. Packard puttered; he gave to the town of Warren $100,000 to build a library and, with his brother, 150 acres of land to build a park & playground. The largest of all his numerous donations was one of $1,000,000 to Lehigh University, alma mater, with which to construct and equip laboratories. Sixteen months...