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Meantime, the Memorial has taken definite shape, that of a stone tablet, to be placed against the outer south wall the Gardiner Public Library...
...Washington one day last week Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt and the U. S. Navy Band helped dedicate a tablet to the late, great Historian George Bancroft, who, as President Polk's Secretary of the Navy, defied Congress in 1845 by setting up without its authority a Naval School which became the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Next day Assistant Secretary Roosevelt motored over to Annapolis to help celebrate its goth anniversary of that event. From far & wide gathered thousands of old Navy men who with their families strolled the quiet, trim, tree-lined yard...
...public library of Dayton, Ohio is a tablet which reads...
...This Tablet Is Erected...
...professor of philosophy and psychology, president of University of North Carolina, president of University of Illinois and finally chancellor of New York University, Harry Woodburn Chase has devoted his entire career to rescuing people from ignorance. Last week in Manhattan, Chancellor Chase uprose to dedicate a memorial tablet to his institution's most famed professor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph. Explaining that early 19th Century scientists held long distance telegraphy to be a physical impossibility, the Chancellor declared...