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...building erected jointly by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, Washington, was appropriately dedicated last week, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Academy. It occupies a site overlooking Potomac Park and adjoining the Lincoln Memorial, and is a result of a gift of $5,000,000 by the Carnegie Corporation for building and endowment...
...hundred and eighty-eight years Harvard University has served the people of this land. The gifts poured upon her have come back to the nation in enrichment of culture, life, and character. Today Harvard has a remarkable chemical staff, with men of world-wide reputation. She has for her thousand students in chemistry the laboratory of fifty years ago, wasteful, inefficient, dangerous. The greatest gift that can be made to the nation through Harvard is the upbuilding of a great modern laboratory, and the enabling of her teachers to carry further than ever their research...
Democratic Minority of the House Committee on Military Affairs: "Imagi- nation cannot compass the advantages to the fortunate legatee of this gigantic gift from a great government. . . . Can it be anything less than a sinister menace, a grave danger, an unmistakably false step wholly unjustified, a grievous wrong to the future generations that will have to live under it and abide by what we here...
Heywood Broun: "Some discipline of the sternest sort should be applied to Miss Francine Larrimore. It seems probable that this young actress has a gift for the theatre, but she has made precious little of it in the last three seasons. Instead of working upon a faulty speech and improving it she has intensified it for the sake of comedy effects in cuteness. Miss Larrimore ought to be made to stay in after school...
...surviving member of the firm of E. Remington & Sons, founded in 1816 by his father; at Herkimer, N. Y. The gun and typewriter manufacturers were originally one company, but failed in 1886 and are now under separate interests, controlled by others than the Remingtons. He died impoverished by his gift (50 years ago) of $250,000 to Syracuse University...