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City Planner Julius Caesar brought some order by decreeing that carts should move only at night; those overtaken by dawn had to remain parked until sunset. He also tried to straighten out confusion in the Forum by moving the Rostra (named for the rostra, ships' prows, captured at Actium), where orators held forth, to one end of the Forum. He began the 110-yd.-long Basilica Julia, alongside the Temple of Castor and Pollux (see cut), to serve as an exchange, law court and meeting place. Caesar's successors carried on with ever-increasing grandiloquence and display, creating...
...University took as its third chancellor, big, venturesome Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, 46. George Peabody College for Teachers took its fifth president, scholarly Psychologist Sidney Clarence Garrison, 50. All week the two campuses shone with such a collection of academic finery as the South had not seen in decades. From rostra thundered Princeton's President Harold W. Dodds, Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, U. S. Public Health Service Surgeon General Thomas Parran, American Bar Association's President Arthur T. Vanderbilt, scores of other bigwigs. No mere installation of officers had instigated all this big talk. Pedagogues and laymen...
These three men presented an attack on the law from the three outstanding rostra of teaching, church, and medicine...
What Reporter Knickerbocker stated, and what his editors seemed to overlook, is that the Rohrbach experiment so far "is only a millennium on paper." Nor is the Rohrbach principle entirely new. Dr. Rohrbach, a builder most famed for his seaplanes (Rohrbach "Rostra." Rohrbach "Romar") has been working on the revolving-wing theory with infinite care for more than two years but has not progressed beyond preliminary wind-tunnel tests...
...such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." So says the U. S. Constitution. President Hoover last week obeyed the injunction for his third time in 21 months of office. He did not go to the Capitol himself. Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra. The Nation's legislators take an opportunity like this to go and eat their luncheons, gossip in the lobbies...