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...main Yard opposite Widener. Dean Sperry of the Theological School conducted the first service for men of '36 and the entire University in September; six weeks later the Corporation ended a dispute of two years' standing with the vote to allow Harvard's three German war dead a memorial tablet in the new church. Before the Class of '36 had graduated the Nazi swastika adorned the tablet, placed there by a visiting German official...
...some doubts about the long introductory part of the speech. "What I want to say," he explained, "is that the spirit of the revolution still is here, still is a part of this country." He wrote for a minute or two, crossed out a few words, then flung the tablet on the desk and began talking, ranging over a wide variety of subjects, both personal and political. He was concerned about the Eisenhower budget, felt that it was unrealistically balanced and that all the red ink to follow would be blamed on the new Administration. He was pleased with...
...TABLET, weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Brooklyn...
When the crop is big enough, a sample is put into a cotton-stoppered vial inside a bigger vial, and frozen solid. When the air is pumped out of the vial, the frozen water departs as vapor, leaving a dry residue that looks like an aspirin tablet and contains perhaps 1,000,000 deeply sleeping germs. Some germs will live for 20 years in this state, and can be awakened by adding nutrient. Thus encouraged, they multiply-and then can be put back to sleep again for another 20 years...
...tore it. Last week at Ryusenji, 200 dignitaries, headed by the Governor of Nara, chanted sutras and presented altar lilies to the brand-new vermilion temple, which was being dedicated to replace the old one, burned down in 1946. And 500 women arrived in buses and uprooted the stone tablet forbidding women to enter the temple compound...