Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tablet in memory of the late Major General Leonard Wood, former Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Governor General of the Philippines, has just been placed in the Memorial Church in the Yard by the 16 men who served with him as aides-de-camp during his lifetime. General Wood was graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1884 and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
...Doubleday Doran last week. Comment on Beasley's behavior by Colyumist W. O. McGeehan: "All through the match between Vines and Austin he sat like Madame de Farge at her knitting, only . . . instead of the knitting needles of the French Revolution, he used a pencil and a tablet, making notes. He will present the notes to the United States Lawn Tennis Association, instead of the Davis...
...spot designated by a tablet in the highway, stood the giant elm beneath which Washington took command of the Continental Army on July 3, 1775. The elm collapsed...
...schoolhouse in his native Van Hornesville. N. Y., burned down, Mr. Young gave a new one whose eventual cost may be $1,000,000. The handsome, well-equipped school, with teachers' homes across the way, was built by local artisans without the aid of contractor. On a bronze tablet listing the builders Mr. Young appears as "Rocking Chair Consultant." In his speech last week he called his school, with its radio, cinema, library, swimming pool and playgrounds, "the social centre of the community." Said he: "In that field it is doing what our churches used to do. Regret...
Heidelberg's "University Hall," classroom building, was built by former U. S. students at the University, dedicated by onetime U. S. Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman in 1931. Its tablet, containing many a Jewish name, still stands. Moreover, foreign students, even Jewish ones, are still admissible at Heidelberg since they "cannot enter the German labor market...