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...established at Harvard in the name of Jacob Wertheim. "One of them is the nature of the fellowship and the other the reason stated by Mr. Maurice Wertheim for entrusting it to Harvard. Contrary to the ideas of those who merely skim headlines, the fellowship is not an outright gift to Harvard, but a trust to be administered by the University in favor of anyone indeed deserving of its benefits, whether or not a member of Harvard. As a reason for bestowing upon the University this unusual honor, Mr. Wertheim has stated "we chose Harvard to administer the fund particularly...
...University will observe Theodore Roosevelt's birthday today with simple ceremonies at noon held before the house in which he lived during his four years in college. The memorial tablet, placed upon the house at 38 Winthrop Street, which is between the Yard and the freshman dormitories, is the gift of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, and the presentation will be by Mr. G. Washburn '80, of Worcester, a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt. President Lowell will receive the gift on behalf of the University, and the presiding officer will by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart '80, chairman for Massachusetts of the Association...
...Memorial Chapel to General Robert E. Lee will shortly command the campus of Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va. The Daughters of the Confederacy, donors, last week pronounced their gift " the tribute of Southern womanhood to the South's ideal hero...
...started his first newspaper venture (Answers), Lord Rothermere, then Harold Harmsworth, was in the Civil Service. He was accounted a brilliant mathematician and his advent to his brother's firm may safely be said to have laid the cornerstone of the Northcliffe fortune. Northcliff e had the journalistic gift and lacked, not business enterprise, but business ability; Rothermere lacked the former but was a positive genius in the business affairs of the firm. Lord Beaverbrook's journalistic career was mainly connected with Canada until he bought The Daily Express. A priori it seems that the British press...
...Charles G. Washburn '80, of Worcester, will make the principal address and present the tablet. Since the house at 38 Winthrop is now owned by the college, President Lowell will accept the gift on behalf of the college. The tablet is a gift of the Massachusetts Committee of the Roosevelt Memorial Association of which Professor A. B. Hart, a former classmate, is Chairman. The latter is to preside at the ceremonies on October...