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In 1904, under President Charles William Eliot, another great expansion was prepared and plans were drawn up for the present buildings on Longwood Avenue at the head of Avenue Louis Pasteur. The cost of land, construction, furnishing, and providing a suitable endowment for the four laboratory buildings and one administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Medical: 166 Years of Honor . . . And Collegiate Spirit | 12/14/1950 | See Source »

Dr. Minot has had an exceptionally distinguished career in medicine. Besides his service as professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1928 to 1948, he has been chief of medical services at the Collis P. Huntington Hospital in Boston and, at various times in his career, he has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Med Professor Minot Is Dead | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Self-conscious because of his youth and size, Winston hired a distinguished-looking man of 70 to go around with him as a front for his deals. Before he was 34 he had bought & sold such famous collections as Empire-Builder Collis P. Huntington's and Mining Tycoon E...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Big Rocks | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Multimillionaire Huntington had inherited one fortune from his railroading Uncle Collis of the Southern Pacific, made a second (in rails, real estate and electric power), and married a third. At 58, he was still working 18 hours a day. Then, retiring from business, he set about spending his money as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sure Way to Immortality | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

When he graduated, he found that he had no love for a sailor's roving life, but he liked ships. So he settled down in the Navy's construction corps, left it after ten years to join Newport News. It had been established 19 years before by railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biggest | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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