University of Virginia news articles [manuscript] 1935.

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University of Virginia news articles [manuscript] 1935.

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Clippings from various Virginia and Washington, D.C. newspapers describe changes in degree requirements, effective fall 1936; the convocation speech by President James Bryant Conant of Harvard; new faculty members; Alfred Akerman and Seward Forest; construction on a new hospital wing with funding through PWA loans; a veterans affairs forum; the election of George Spicer as recording secretary of the Southern Political Science Association. The collection also contains a clipping of a cartoon by Ed Reed depicting a student turning somersaults as he leaves the University of Virginia.

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James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) was a chemist, educator and public servant. Conant taught chemistry at Harvard from 1917-1933; he served as Harvard's president from 1933-1953. He was the national director of defense research from 1941-1945, and was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb. He continued as President of Harvard until 1953, at which time he was made United States High Commissioner for Germany. When allied military occupation of Germany ended in 1955, Conant became the U.S. A...

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University of Virginia student from Lexington, Ky.; afterwards a Presbyterian minister and missionary to Brazil. From the description of Diploma awarded to John Rockwell Smith [manuscript], 1866 June 29. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647905124 Lt., C.S.A.; teacher, Norwood School, Nelson County, Va.; principal Select School, New York, N.Y. From the description of Diplomas of Waller Holladay [manuscript], 1858-1872. (University of Virginia). WorldC...

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The Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project to improve navigation on and provide hydro-electric power from the Santee and Cooper Rivers was authorized by the South Carolina legislature in 1934. Federal approval for the Project was granted in 1935 and construction takes place from 1939-1941; power generation begins in 1942. Fossil fuel generating stations constructed in 1951, 1966, 1972, 1977 and 1981 and a nuclear plant, in cooperation with South Carolina Electric & Gas, opened i...

Reed, Ed.

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