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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Established in 1931 from a bequest of the late Archibald C. Coolidge '87, this professorship "in modern European or Asiatic History" bears the novel stipulation that on vacancy it may at the University's discretion be filled or remain unoccupied with accumulation of income...
...general, the farther from white men the Eskimos live the healthier they remain. In spite of having "no sense whatever of sanitation," they are "remarkably free from infection." Their population is increasing and, since the Eskimo is indispensable to the fur industry, the Hudson's Bay Co. takes good care to keep him alive and healthy in Nature...
...Victoria's Prince Consort Albert who put the Duchy of Cornwall into profitable shape at a time when its copper mines, with those of Devonshire, produced one-third of Europe's supply. Now the profitable veins have largely run out. There remain a fine fish and oyster business, some mines and quarries, farmlands and a huge piece of South London. These monies go directly to the office of the Duchy of Cornwall in London's Buckingham Gate, only 200 yards from the back door of the Palace. The new King and Admiral Halsey may sometimes be seen...
Last week a court fight was in progress in Massachusetts to determine after 36 years of Pinkham family squabbling whether control of the business, which still nets $840,000 a year, would remain with the three rich grandsons of Mrs. Pinkham or with her richer daughter and two granddaughters. Each branch of the family has an equal share of the original stock. Few months ago the grandsons, President Arthur Pinkham, Vice President Daniel Pinkham and Secretary Charles Pinkham, got a temporary court order restraining the distaff branch of the family from "interfering in the conduct of the business." Spry...
Cassandra-like, Jefferson could sometimes read the future: "I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be any vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe." Shays's Rebellion did not horrify Jefferson nearly so much as it did Washington, Said he: "I like a little rebellion now & then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere...