Word: greatness
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...laboratory was the first in America to make physical research its predominant aim. The work of a great grandson has made possible a realization of the liberal university view of President Jefferson, who was the first in America to see the importance of the prosecution of science. In my last interview with Mr. Coolidge he expressed the hope that the laboratory would not be given over to mere elementary teaching, and he said, "If you succeed in turning out a Michael Faraday I shall be well satisfied...
...This fall the work to complete the fund and enroll every possible Harvard man as a subscriber has been renewed. It is now being carried on with great activity by committees from every college class from 1864 to 1920. These committees in the more numerous classes average over fifty men each and are working in all parts of the country...
...great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, Mr. Coolidge was born in Boston on August 26, 1831. He received his secondary school training in Europe and then entered the Sophomore class at the University in 1849, graduating in 1850, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1853 he received a Master's degree and in 1902 was conferred an LL.D...
Although his primary interest was always business, he took great interest in the University, giving the Jefferson Physical Laboratory which cost $115,000 and also $50,000 for a chemical laboratory for quantitative analysis in memory of his son, T. Jefferson Coolidge 2nd '84, who died in April...
...Coolidge is noted for his remarkable success in conducting great business enterprises. In 1858 he was chosen president of the Boott Manufacturing Company, which owned three large cotton mills in Lawrence. After he had restored the company, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, to a strong financial basis, he went to France for several years, returning to this country to manage the Lawrence Cotton Manufacturing Company. In 1876 he accepted the position of treasurer of the Amoskeag Mills, which he resigned in 1897, when he became interested in railroads...