Word: tablets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university building in Heidelberg there is (or was) a tablet bearing the names of the men who, at the suggestion of Jacob Gould Schurman, provided the money for the building. The names are: Jules S. Bache, George F. Baker, William Gerard Beckers, James Brown, Walter P. Chrysler, Clarence L. Dillon, Julius Forstmann, William Fox, Henry Goldman, W. A. Harriman, Harris Forbes & Co., Henry Heide, George D. Horst, Henry Janssen, Robert Lehman, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. J. (or I; the German capitals are alike) Norton, Gustav Oberlaender, James R. Perkins, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Julius Rosenwald, Samuel Sachs, Mortimer L. Schiff...
...happen to know whether the Nazis have removed or defaced this tablet or removed from it the names of Jews? They could no doubt try to excuse its removal on the grounds that the former government of Baden should not have accepted a gift to which so many Jews had contributed and that the building is in the newer style (a halfhearted, weak attempt, to be sure) of which the Nazis do not approve. No doubt they would charge the above-named Jews with promoting "Kulturbolschewismus...
...pheasant, with a broken wing, which ventured into the Eliot House quadrangle, was shot by residents of the House yesterday morning. The bird was buried in the quadrangle and a tablet erected over the grave...
Other specimens are: a longhand copy of President Boover's acceptance speech, approximately the size of a postage stamp, with the President's autograph on the fly-leaf; the smallest existent Babylonian clay tablet, dating about 2800 B.C.; the smallest pack of playing cards and smallest newspaper in the world; a Testament in shorthand, the key of which permitted the decodation of Pepys' famous diary; and the almanac of King Edward VII when Prince of Wales. The complete diminutive library totals over 100 volumes...
...When the tablet was first set up in a spot under the northwest stairway it was decided to try several positions in an effort to find the most appropriate one. Later it was placed on the west side of the north wall in the main body of the Church...