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Such theatrical scenes could not occur in any Manhattan station belonging to Daniel Willard's Baltimore & Ohio R. R. because it has no station for them to occur in. And last week the War Department doomed any chance of its having such a station for years and years by disapproving construction of a bridge across the Hudson River which would bring the B. & 0. tracks over from New Jersey to New York...
...Willard became president of the B. & 0. in 1910 and that same year the Pennsylvania opened its Manhattan terminal. For two decades he has been plotting and planning how he could get his line across the river to compete with the Pennsylvania in the country's richest passenger market. A huge Hudson River bridge to Manhattan's 57th Street seemed the solution. Though no official sponsor, President Willard rooted hard for this project. Now he is 70 years old; his great career as a railroader is drawing to a natural close. The War Department's disapproval meant that he would...
...Willard Learoyd Sperry, dean of the Theological School, will assist in the Baccalaureate Service. Following this President Lowell will receive at his home all of the members of the Senior Class and the members of the class of 1906 who are attending the reunion...
...295th Commencement have been announced, the arrangements being that the exercises will start on Sunday, June 15 with a Baccalaureate Service in Appleton Chapel at 4 o'clock. At this time the Baccalaureate Sermon will be delivered by President Lowell, who will be assisted in the service by Willard Learoyd Sperry, Dean of the Episcopal Theological School...
...Willard Gibbs Medal. If Professor Whitney had not been busy getting his Franklin Medal in Philadelphia he would have tried to be in Chicago where the Willard Gibbs Medal, which he already has, was being bestowed by the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society upon Dr. Phoebus Aaron Theodore Levene. Dr. Levene, 62, Russian-born, has been a member of the Rockefeller Institute since 1907. He began as a doctor of medicine, changed quickly after his emigration to the U. S. (1893) to the chemistry of living material. As a biochemist he ranks with the world's best...