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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Technically, the distinction of being the first man to earn the nation's highest award for valor goes to Frederick W. Gerber, Sergeant Major of Engineers from 1839 to 1871, who was cited "for distinguished gallantry in many actions . . . covering a period of 32 years." However, the decoration did not exist before 1862. -ED.] These awards were to be issued for acts, "above and beyond duty," and I have no doubt that many were well-merited. However it must have been quite a shock to the 30 who escorted President Lincoln's remains to have been decorated...
...greatly to be regretted that the Harvard School of City Planning, almost the cradle of the art in America, with its brilliant and unique background of accomplishment should find it necessary to discontinue its activities because of "insufficient funds", especially at this most critical period in the development of planning...
...been slowly building up the personnel, equipment, and organization which in 1929 crystallized in the present School of Regional Planning. No other professional school, for the training of men who expect to meet such problems, exists. With the destruction of the present institution, the fruit of this long period of labor will be largely dissipated...
...pieces in the display are 110 selected sets, a loan from Mr. G.A. Pfeiffer, of New York City, and include the famous Hammond collection from London. Together they cover a period of four centuries...
Professor Castle is widely known for research in animal genetics extending over a period of more than forty years. His publications in this field include "Heredity in Relation to Evolution and Animal Breeding" (1911), "Genetics and Eugenics" (1916), and several papers on subjects of heredity and evolution...