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Thus did the crabbed cynic ridicule those who made marble mausoleums for a heap of ashes. But those of us who have never achieved living in a wine cask, insist upon at least six feet of quiet sod and an undisturbed headstone. For, as Dr. Rand has observed, the living might find some more appropriate way of honoring the dead than by carting the bones around...
...devoted to improvements on Franklin Park. Of this amount all except $3,000 will, according to the mayor's proposal, be expended in bettering the golfing facilities at the Park. The specific items for which the money is needed include repairs to the Locker Building, seats, loam and sod for the fairways, and general repairs on buildings...
...Story. This is the story of the education of Fremont McConkey, Hawkeye?how he and the State of Iowa grew up together. The bare-foot boy, born in a sod hut, who assimiliated a curious education from back numbers of The New York Weekly, The Lives of the Presidents and the Victorian poets, became a leading citizen?a prosperous, successful newspaper editor. The waste and beautiful prairies were civilized into the richest farming land in the world. In some six decades the people of that region had bridged the gulf between a life like that of the border ballads?...
...most significant events took place on February 11, 1913, when the first sod was turned for the foundation of the Widener Memorial Library, and on June 16, when the cornerstone was laid. For the College Library, the last year has been one of transition and of inevitable confusion in many respects. The chief work in the administration has been the moving of some 500,000 volumes from Gore Hall into the Randall Dining Hall and nine other buildings. There has not been at any time, however, an interruption in the use of the books. All have continued to be accessible...
Ground was broken yesterday for the new Widener Memorial Library, the first sod being turned by George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, the brother of Harry Elkins Widener '07, in whose memory the Library is being built. Mrs. George D. Widener, who is giving the building, was unable to be present to lift the first spadeful of earth herself. The ceremony was of the simplest sort, with no formal address of any kind. Guests included the Library staff, the Visiting Committee, and a few others. After Mr. Widener had broken the ground, spadefuls were turned up successively by President Lowell...