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With the cooperation of Sigurthur Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton professor of Poetry, and F. S. Cawley, assistant professor of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, about 140 Icelandic publications, principally from Reykjavik, the capital of that country, and Winnipeg, Canada, will reach the Library regularly. They will continue series in the Schofield Memorial collection, which, with these additions, will probably constitute one of the best collections of its kind in existence...
...collection, consisting of magazines, newspapers, and publications, was purchased by Mrs. Henry Schofield from Kristjan Kristjanssen, book collector of Reykjavik, and presented to the Library in memory of her husband, who was chairman of Comparative Literature at Harvard from 1906 until his death in 1920. Kristjanssen has consented to act as the agent of the Library in the matter of the forth-coming subscriptions
...that he also administers the departments of fire, building, elevator and electrical inspection, maintenance & repairs. Most famed of Philadelphia's recent Safety Directors was Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, who tried to dry up the city. In 1928 aggressive, door-smashing Lemuel B. Schofield was appointed following a grand jury investigation of Philadelphia scandals. Last week Mayor-elect Joseph Hampton Moore announced Director Schofield's successor-a man he pointedly hoped would find other things to do than "being a captain of police to lead raids or a fire chief to rush...
Still smarting under the Mayor-elect's jibe, retiring Director Schofield among his last acts dismissed 228 policemen and promoted one patrolman to sergeant. That one was Charles P. Lang, whom Secretary Charles Francis Adams of the Navy dismissed from the Naval Reserve for wearing a U. S. uniform while making a liquor raid last July. "Lang," explained Mr. Schofield, "was made a martyr in the Navy and despite an honorable career was dismissed ... by a misguided and egotistic little whiffet...
...Huntington, R. H. Prew, Nashua, N. H., E. C. Rae, New Canann, Conn., J. A. Redshaw, Munhall, Pa., E. H. Reed, Wellesley Hills, A. H. Rosenthal, Dorchester, J. J. Ryan, Jr., Jamaica Plain, A. G. Sanderson, Texarkana, Ark., N. Sano, Lynn., E. B. Schoenbach, New York City, W. H. Schofield, Chicago, Ill., J. Shack, Whitman, M. Shapiro, Cambridge, H. M. Shore, Jersey City, N. J., P. Shuebruk, Cohasset, J. P. Squire, Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I., L. Srole, Chicago, Ill., D. M. Sullivan, Boston, A. E. Taylor, Pomona, Cal., A. J. Torrielli, Watertown, W. I. Tucker, Baltimore, Md., L. Urow...