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...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...
...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...
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...
...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...