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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the National Academy of Sciences, most select of national scientific bodies, gathered in Washington to elect 14 new members, make Dean Frank Ratray Lillie of the University of Chicago's Division of Biological Sciences its new president, read some 50 papers. Newsworthy discussions...
...There are plenty of good men in the country when we are ready to select one. But now we have to agree on a fundamental set of principles in opposition to the New Deal, and work actively against its dangerous tendencies...
...years ago by the late Colonel William Boyce Thompson, copper tycoon, yachtsman, good friend of Roosevelt I. A Red Cross mission to Russia which he headed and helped pay for had taught him the importance of food crops. His interest in ornamental plants was aroused when he came to select trees, shrubs and flowers for his 30-acre estate on the Hudson. Meditating the Rockefeller millions assigned to ameliorate and prolong human life, he decided to set up a station for studying the fundamental hows & whys of plant behavior. When Colonel Thompson died in 1930, he had given the Institute...
Balloting to select the five men for the 1936 Board will take place before the beginning of the Reading period. The choice will be made from the list of 17 men already nominated by a special committee, headed by Frederick R. Moseley, Jr. '36, together with any names that may be added to the list by petition. Such petitions must bear the signatures of 25 members of the Class of 1936 and should be left in Moseley's mail box at 52 Mt. Auburn Street by Friday noon...
...seems to me that you could select pictures of persons who have rendered worthwhile service to the country, thereby give them publicity in a first class magazine...