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Improved restaurant facilities are foremost among the several changes made in the Harvard Union during the summer. Other improvements include the conversion of the rotunda over the H. A. A. ticket office into a spacious, well-furnished sun room. As a result of the alterations, the barber shop has been moved to the basement in the front of the building...
Many a Washington tourist could identify the next Governor of the Federal Reserve Board as the gilt-lettered name of the donor of a fine head of Abraham Lincoln, sculptured by famed Gutzon Borglum and standing in the rotunda of the Capitol...
Next day, Robert and Charles Taft, sons of the 27th President of the U. S., called upon President Hoover, spent an hour talking funeral plans. Their father had wanted no public display. They agreed that his body might lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda for three hours where the public could view it. Later a simple service would be held at All Souls' Unitarian Church on 16th Street where Mr. Taft regularly worshipped. The sons left the White House to motor across the Potomac with Col. Hodges to Arlington National Cemetery. There they selected an interment plot...
...compare the Lincoln and Davis faces, one will only have to stand in the narrow connecting passage between Statuary Hall and the Rotunda where is placed the Lincoln head, rising as if half-finished out of solid stone, carved by Gutzon Borglum (donated by Eugene Meyer Jr., onetime Farm Loan Commissioner). To the sorrow of romantic historians the two antagonists of the Civil War will not gaze mournfully upon each other...
Water leaked down on Associate Justice Edward Terry Sanford. who hastily spread a tarpaulin over his office desk and papers. The rotunda was a puddle ankle-deep. In 45 minutes the fire...