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in the minds of the students to imitate them. We lack a book

describing such people."

Whereupon some person in the audience called out, per-

haps not without sarcasm, "Why don't you write one?"

The challenge was accepted and the result is here pre-

sented to the teaching public. The choice of subjects is not

beyond criticism and the method of treatment may not satisfy

all admirers. We are too near the subjects for exact appraise-

ment. All are living or have only recently passed away. All

except two are American born; all have done their work in

America.

Among the notables sketched in the very interesting

volume are the following: Anna Shaw, Luther Burbank,

Thomas Edison, Frances Willard, Robert Edwin Peary,

Henry Ford, Helen Keller, John Wanamaker, General

John J. Pershing, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow

Wilson.

Some one has deplored the juvenile mind of the aver-

age American. Of course it is important that the minds

of as many of our citizens as possible may reach the

adult stage, but few of us lose entirely the juvenile mind

and sympathy and it would be unfortunate if we did.

The object should be not to lose this but to add to it. That

is a fortunate book that may be read with interest by

boys and girls from eight years of age to eighty years.

Worth-While Americans, while intended as supplemen-

tal reading in the grades of our public schools is very

interesting, as we can attest, to busy persons of mature

years who enjoy brief sketches of the notables included

in its well chosen list.

 

 

HARDING MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION

On October 8, 1923, there was filed with Secretary

of State Thad Brown letters of incorporation for the

Harding Memorial Association.

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These provide --

(1) For erecting and maintaining in perpetuity at

Marion a mausoleum wherein to place the body of War-

ren Gamaliel Harding, late President of the United

States, and the body of Florence Kling Harding, his

wife, when she shall have passed to her eternal rest; to

acquire all necessary real estate on which to place said

mausoleum, and for roadways, places and parks leading

thereto and for the beautification of the place surround-

ing said mausoleum.

(2) To acquire and hold the home of the late

Warren Gamaliel Harding on Mount Vernon Avenue,

Marion, Ohio, and such other property as deemed nec-

essary for the conversion into a shrine by improving

and building a fireproof structure, wherein shall be

placed all the personal effects, books, speeches, me-

mentos and belongings of similar kind of Warren Gama-

liel Harding, that it may be preserved and handed down

as a shrine of love and understanding where all people

may go for inspiration.

(3) To endow a Warren Gamaliel Harding chair

of diplomacy and government in connection with some

existing University.

(4) To hold all property, both real and personal

coming into the possession of this association, in trust

for the uses and purposes hereinbefore set forth.

The names of those signing these papers of incor-

poration are as follows: President Coolidge, Secretary

Mellon of the treasury; Secretary Hughes of state; Sec-

retary Weeks of war; Attorney-General Daugherty,

Postmaster-General New, Secretary Denby of the navy;

Secretary Work of the interior; Secretary Wallace of

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agriculture; Secretary Hoover of commerce; Secretary

Davis of labor, and fifteen residents of Marion.

Plans have already been perfected for raising the

funds for the Harding Memorial, and before this issue

of the QUARTERLY reaches our readers the necessary

contributions will have been subscribed.

 

 

DR. T. C. MENDENHALL ENTERTAINS FIRST CLASS

TO ENTER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, who delivered the annual

address published in this issue of the QUARTERLY and

whose life sketch and contributions appear in previous

issues, sole surviving member of the first faculty of

the Ohio State University, entertained surviving stu-

dents who entered at the first opening of that institu-

tion on the occasion of his visit to Columbus to attend

the annual meeting of the Society.       The following

account of the reunion appeared in the Ohio State

Lantern of October 3:

A reunion of the first class and members of the faculty of

Ohio State was held on the campus September 17. It was the

occasion of the University's semi-centennial, and eight of the

nine living members of the initial class, which consisted of

seventeen students, came back to revive old memories.

The group was entertained by Dr. Thomas C. Mendenhall,

member of the first faculty and now president of the University

board of trustees, assisted by President Thompson and Dr.

Edward Orton, Jr., the latter the son of the first president of

the University.

The party gathered at University Hall on the semi-centen-

nial day and were then taken for a tour of the campus.

With what was in their memory and before their eyes,

those first students passed from building to building marveling

at what time can do. They were entertained at the home of

Dr. Thompson by Dr. Mendenhall, and later a reception was

given them at the Archaeological Museum. Here was presented

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