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...Charles Hayden stipulated that it be used to promote the "wellbeing, uplifting and development of boys and young men." To Josiah Hayden (whose own needs were well cared for by a $2,000,000 trust fund from his brother), $50,000,000 meant a chance to wave a golden wand, play fairy godfather...
...William Harvey, who discovered in the early 17th Century the way the blood circulates, was "a little man with twinkling* SURGEONS ALL-Rich & Cowan, London (18s.). eyes. . . . When he was lecturing he had a little wand of whalebone tipped with silver," which he used to point out organs he was dissecting. "A lecture on the liver ... he transformed into a subject of vital interest by ... references to bearbaiting and cockfighting, football and the ballet, and a strange bird in his Majesty's aviary. . . . Then he would conclude with a spirited attack on the fashion of lacing young girls till...
...could persuade both sides of the 23-month-old Spanish Civil War to lay down their arms and peacefully mediate their differences. Last week Great Britain's peace-talking Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, slyly let it be known through "authoritative" sources that he was considering waving a magic wand in that direction...
...magician has waved his wand! Now there is no fleet here at all! No damned fleet at all, damme...
During this period six college presidents were touched with the magic wand. Except for A. Lawrence Lowell the recognition was not due to any starting contribution to education, but rather to a strange habit of reciprocity among American colleges. In the field of government Samuel Seabury rendered a great public service, but degrees were similarly bestowed upon A1 smith, Orden Mills, and Secretary Wallance. Even the casual reader of the Bible will admit that it much easier for a rich man to enter the Sever Quadrangle than the gates of heaven, and it is hard to see how being President...