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...gift of $475,000 has been made for the Division of Chemistry in the University from the family of the late E. C. Converse of New York, one of the most prominent of the group of international financiers who founded the United States Steel Corporation, it was announced yesterday by Bishop William Lawrence '71, Chairman of the Committee to Extend the National Service of Harvard University...
...Converse was General Manager, and later President of the National Tube Works, and was influential in bringing about a consolidation of the various tube works concerns with the U. S. Steel Corporation, of which he was an active and influential director for many years...
...including Rigoletto, Tosca, La Traviata, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci. Consequently, there was a stiletto scene on the stage almost every night. But the performers' dagger-technique was sadly wanting in fire and dash. Manipulation of throat lozenges evidently was considered of superior importance to the handling of cold steel...
Massachusetts Hall will be ready for students' quarters next autumn. The actual construction will be finished before this, but not soon enough for use during the present college year. The building will be entirely fireproof, steel concrete and plaster being the only new materials. The foundations were found to be entirely good, while the walls, though firm in most places, will have to have new bricks here and there Massachusetts Hall will hold about 40 men. There will be 10 bedrooms and six studies on each flooor...
...State's Attorney, content to repose in the wisdom of the 19th Century. He at least was willing to learn, so he admitted the evidence. He seemed unconscious of the fact of which he cannot have been wholly unconscious, that in so doing he was opening the steel-barred doors of the criminal courts of this country, and the world, to a new concept of responsibility for crime." Said Judge Caverly (in his opinion) : "It is beyond the province of this court, as it is beyond the capacity of human science in its present state of development, to predicate...