Science: East Gone West

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Three hundred cheerful, sociable, well-dressed Chicagoans of the class which, well-off mentally as well as financially, is out to make Chicago a great cultural centre as well as the country's biggest railroad junction, assembled last week in a new million-dollar building on the citified "campus" of the University of Chicago. Henry and Stanley Field, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Thomas Elliott Donnelley, Harold Higgins Swift, et ul., mingled with a learned collection of archaeologists and other scientists. Neatly bespatted, with waxed mustache almost as shiny as his horn-rimmed spectacles, the Egyptian Minister...

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