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...evening dinner in the Harvard Union at which Professor R. P. Boas '17 of Mount Holyoke College will be toast-master, the speakers will be Mrs. Grace Hazard Conkling of Smith College, who will talk on "Imagination In and Out of School", Professor S. F. Damon '14 of Brown University, who will discuss "Unknown American Literature", and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana '12, who will discuss some phase of his grandfather's work...
...deficiency appropriation bill carrying $75,000,000 tax refund item lost in deadlock on the first deficiency bill, also voted 230 to 125 against the appropriation of $24,000,000 for Prohibition enforcement; struck out provisions for two additional $10,000 secretaries to the President and for repair of Mount Weather, Va., as a Presidential retreat...
...Mount Weather, as the $500,000 abandoned station is called, sits in an 87-acre tract, six miles up a rocky road from Bluemont, Va. Washington, east by southeast, lies 55 miles away over fair dirt roads- an easy journey for the Presidential motor of a Friday afternoon...
...birthplace; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has just purchased 267 acres of the estate, on which the old house will be reproduced at a cost of about half a million dollars. When it is completed, together with the Strothers Farm, which it is hoped to have rebuilt, and with Mount Vernon, there will be three important shrines of the nation's hero...
...part of the general plan of development, Congress readily appropriated $4,250,000 to construct a boulevard from Washington to Mount Vernon, along the bank of the Potomac, by which pilgrims from all over the land may have easy access to Washington's homes...