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...last ten years the Noble lecture has been used as an occasion to invite visiting scholars and churchmen from England to Harvard in the hope that by their speaking here they might tend to establish closer relations between English and American churches and universities...
...Democratic Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner. One bill called for a complete monthly collection of employment figures by the Department of Labor to replace the present hit-or-miss system which keeps even the President of the U. S. ignorant as to the number of jobless. The other bill would establish a $150,000,000 public building program which the U. S. on short notice could swing into the breach of any future labor depression. Enactment of these measures was anticipated...
From London this week by transoceanic telephone, Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago citizen, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was ready to send a five-minute speech to a Chicago Better Business Bureau dinner "to establish the truth about the city as a good place to live and do business...
...late '60s Johns Hopkins, wealthy Quaker merchant of Baltimore, provided money to establish there a University which would include a hospital and a medical school. Much preliminary preparation was necessary before the medical school could be opened. Finally, in 1883, needing a pathologist to open the school, the trustees despatched an emissary to Germany to find one. The Germans sent the emissary back to the U. S. "Find Welch," they said. "We have no one bigger...
...announcement of courses for next year in the Cambridge School of the Drama shows an unmistakable tendency on the part of the directors to make the instruction practical rather than academic. To establish such a method, however, naturally presupposes considerable equipment which they do not at present own and the chief problem that presents itself in this situation is just how extensive such program of expansion should be at such an early period...