"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
As his part in honoring the late great financier George Fisher Baker, Financier Adolph Lewisohn of Manhattan took occasion to remind the public: "When I gave the School of Mines Building to Columbia [University] the building was to be named the Lewisohn Building and Mr. Baker, then one of the trustees of Columbia, advised me to call it the Columbia School of Mines Building. . . . He had inserted in the floor of the front entrance of the building a tablet...
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