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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canvassed Kentucky's House of Representatives for an appointment as pageboy. Voted down, he applied to the State Senate, which last week voted that Fleming Thompson might be personal pageboy for Lieutenant Governor James Breathitt provided he continued wearing a top hat throughout the Senate's session...
...Dominican Republic. To offer $50,000 in prizes for lighthouse designs. Such were details of a project announced, a fortnight ago, by the Governing Board of the Pan-American Union, at Washington. Already the Dominican Government has appropriated $300,000. The rest will be raised by general appeals throughout the Americas...
Thus man's experimenting swerves back over old trails. More than 400 years ago Leonardo da Vinci, great artist, scientist, wished to fly. That seems to have been the one constant wish throughout his long & lively life-to fly. He knew of course nothing about modern motive power, although he did make some contraptions to operate by steam force. Therefore it was directly to birds that he turned discerning thoughts. He studied the mechanics of their flights, the comparative anatomy of their bodies. He built flying machines and, superb and practical engineer, he knew before he tried them that...
...member of the faculty of New York University, and prominent in library affairs paid the following tribute: "By his wide scholarship and remarkable executive ability Professor Coolidge secured for the Harvard Library not merely preeminence among American University libraries but the respect and admiration of scholars and libraries throughout the world...
...statement in the 1927 issue of the annual report, Hamlen says, "The office is constantly endeavoring to broaden its scope and contacts, to extend its faculities to business houses throughout the country, and 40 assist those graduates who have not yet found satisfactory positions. To do this more effectively it must depend upon the continued interest of the alumni and the employers. It is hoped that the alumni, especially, will keep the Appointment Office actively in mind, the notify its Secretary whenever there are openings in their own organizations, or any others. The source of such information can be kept...