Supplying the world with news

✍ Scribed by Melville E. Stone

• Book ID: 104120976
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1916
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 724 KB
• Volume: 181
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(16)90454-x

✦ Synopsis

~ HAVE had some doubt as to the precise propriety of m 7 presence here to-night. This institution is given over to the technicalities of the Arts and Sciences. But, oi1 reflection, 1 think I find some warrant for my intrusion. I am minded that you take 3*our name from that great American, who was not only a notable diplomat, statesman, scientist, and philosopher, but was also, in his day, the Master Printer of the Colonies. And in this room you have, as if ordered fo.r the occasion, side. by side:, Franklin's original apparatus for the study of electricity, and the imposing stone which he used in his printing office. It is also worthy of mention that another printer who for many years was a valued mem~ber of the institution, Mr. Wil]iam Swain, one o.f the founders of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was an active co-worker with Professor Morse in developing telegraphy and in fitting that great invention to ministry in the business of news gathering. So, in the wo.rds of Paul, I have " waxed confident by these bonds."

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