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...Syracuse, N. Y., a thief remembered that there was $25 cached in the cornerstone of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, pried off a slab of limestone, helped himself to the money...
Three Cornell men, Carl Weagant, Dudley X Schoales, Joseph Rummler, last summer after being graduated, sailed across the Atlantic in the 40-ft. ketch Carlsark. Last week they returned to Ithaca, N. Y., presented a slab of rock from Ithaca, Greece, hometown of their avowed exemplar, Homeric Odysseus, to Cornell's archeological museum, declared proudly that in exchange for the slab they had set up on the heights above Greek Ithaca a rock carried from Cornell's campus inscribed "CORNELL FOREVER...
...site where the shovels are now digging. He located in 1634 where later the Hick's house was to stand. On the other corner of the area, another more eminent man settled directly opposite Dudley's home, the site of which is marked by a polished granite slab on the corner of Dunster and South. This prominent person was John Bridge, whose statue now stands so commandingly on the Cambridge Common. Bridge was a public man of ability, serving as selectman, school supervisor, deacon, and court representative. His quaint little house, though remodeled, was demolished only last autumn. Thomas Fisher...
...darkness of the park, on the bridge watching the black swirls of the grim river, still and stark on the slab in the white morgue--the caprice of nature lives and dies. Life in the well of loneliness. Radclyffe Hall beckons with a sympathetic smile, a book in her hand, for mankind to come to the aid of the lost. But contrary to her intentions, her humane gesture is greeted only with the crash of tea cups on polite floors, the sneers of the intellectuals, and the holy pronunciamentos of of the court of civil law. Despite the while...
...names of seven former professors in the Harvard Law School, who were eminent as well in the shaping of American legal tradition, have recently been carved on the marble slab which extends below the roof of the new Langdell Hall addition. The names on the West side are Story, Greenleaf, Parsons, and on the East side, Gray, Ames, Thayer, Smith. They were chosen by Dean Roscoe Pound for their contributions to legal education...