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...hull or aboard of her I may draw your attention to the fact that although it was possible to construct the ship out of nonmagnetic material it yet was not possible to keep all magnetic material from aboard her. All canned goods carried by the Carnegie carried a certain amount of magnetism in the cans in which they were preserved and for this reason these goods were carried in the after part of the ship while the earth inductor with which the earth's magnetic forces were measured was carried forward as far away from the stern as conditions...
Last week the first and only President of the Greek Republic attracted a certain amount of attention to himself by resigning...
Commander Jerome Clark Hunsaker. vice-president of the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., said that the plan would be feasible, except for certain changes in the building construction, other officials thought that it might necessitate the dumping of tons of airship ballast water, provisions for which would have to be made. Helium Co. of Louisville, Ky., has developed for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. a mobile plant for the purification of the precious...
From this site Professor Lake will go to the Monastery of St. Catherine to pursue his researches in Biblical manuscripts while Professor Blake returns to the United States by way of Bulgaria and Roumania where he expects to carry on certain negotiations on behalf of the Harvard College Library. Professor Lake will be away until the fall. Professor Blake will return to Cambridge about the first of April...
...this work is not to produce good mechanics, but to develop a first rate group of leaders in various fields. Professional ambition will be sought for in any candidates for the Institute; previous education is to mean very little in the selection of the students, provided they have a certain amount of innate ability combined with intellectual curiosity and aspiration...