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The subject is difficult to treat in a worthy manner, because it has been treated at the fiftieth, the seventieth, and the seventy-fifth anniversaries of the Franklin Institute's birth by the Hon. Frederick Fraley, Dr. Coleman Sellers, Prof. Thurston, our Secretary, Dr. Wm. H. Wahl, and others; and because in these days lectures which are not filled with pictures (moving if possible) or experiments, to charm the eye, no longer satisfy the jaded public. The picture which this lecture is intended to present in its entirety is, however, a moving one in a spiritual sense; and [ \*A lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute, on the occasion of the reception held Friday evening, February I4th, 19o8, to formally inaugurate its reorganization following its receipt of the Benjamin Franklin Legacy. ## VOL. CLXV. No 988 J7 a46 Fra~er: [J. F. I., wish to make it as moving as possible to overcome the lethargic indifference with which the beneficiaries of the work of others 3o often regard the struggles, and troubles, the hopes, crises, anti efforts of their benefactors. Ther4 is usually a Cinderella in each large family of children, and in the family of industrial and scientific societies
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- Author
- Persifor Frazer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0016-0032)
- Published
- 1908
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)