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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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and Hist. Society Publications
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