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...oak-shaded hillside near Haverford College campus, in the heart of Philadelphia's "Main Line" district, a large white tent was set up last week. Into it shuffled an academic procession of delegates from 112 institutions, ranked by seniority all the way from Oxford and Cambridge down through Juniata College (founded 1876) to Reed College (founded 1911). The delegates, among them 50-odd college presidents, had come to help Haverford celebrate its 100th birthday...
...mounting for the 61-inch telescope to be erected at the Oak Ridge Observatory has been shipped and Observatory, officials expect that the instrument will be in operation by the first of December unless some unforeseen difficulties arise...
Died. Josiah Van Kirk Thompson, 79, retired Pennsylvania coal operator and banker; after long illness; in the 52-room house on the weed-choked ruin of his estate, "Oak Hill," in Uniontown, Pa. Inheriting $100,000 from his father, he gave it to Washington & Jefferson College which had graduated him, started from scratch. Uncannily able to "smell" coal, he built up a $70,000,000 empire, owned more than 140,000 acres of coal land. The War caught him overextended, his bank strained by a transcontinental railroad project. In 1930, flat broke, he was sued by his niece, the Princess...
...Lucille Robinson of Des Moines: the women's Western golf championship; by beating U. S. Champion Virginia Van Wie 6 & 5 in the final; at the Oak Park Country Club near Chicago...
...life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan had been born. When the sun came up Leo Frank's corpse dangled from an oak tree near Prey's gin mill. After it was cut down, a man ground his heel into its pallid face. Said the Marietta Journal: "We regard the hanging of Leo Frank as an act of law abiding citizens." Georgia's condemnation at the time was nationwide...