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The interrelation of research by professors with the instruction of undergraduates is no less important. There have been unfortunate attempts to discourage research by undergraduate teachers, or to minimize the value of research in the life of the professor. Still more unfortunate is the tendency of the professor himself to...
Lobster Silk. The U. S. Department of Commerce received a report that one Dr. G. Kunike had been saving lobster and crab shells, bringing the chitin or bony structure thereof into colloidal solution, passing it through a filter press and drawing it out into artificial silk threads of greater tensile...
Fertilizers. "When we want, we shall make food from coal or wood," confidently said Dr. Louis C. Jones of the Nitrogen Engineering Corp., Manhattan. Four-fifths of the world's production of artificial fertilizers are made with the aid of coal, not by water power as is commonly supposed...
A Proud Woman. Playwright Richman starts out to write a "character comedy." The story: a provincial maid, about to wed a wealthy Manhattanite, finds all her hopes, plans, thoughts, poisoned by the arrival of her sister who brings a small-town suspicion to the guileless urbanity of the metropolis. Near...
The skilled performer in any of the arts but literature must have a training whose technique sets him apart from ordinary men: His education in the handling of paints and brushes, chisels and marble, counterpoint and chords, columns and domes, is a thing for the rest of the world to...