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...plugs, tubes, grills, meters, other complicated instruments of broadcasting science. At 6 a. m. one cold, black morning last week, there stood brawny Harold Vivian, chief control room operator. He had been on duty all night making tests. Now he was watching the chief engineer and assistants inspect apparatus, establish contact with outlying stations. A hushed, nervous expectancy filled the room. In a half-minute they would begin broadcasting to 59 stations in the U. S. and Canada, a prime program...
...several complete examples are on view, together with a collection of obscene statuettes, which the Clergy deny were carved by Russian monks in their monastery leisure. In Tiflis the 100-ton chimes of the Cathedral were recently melted down and sums raised by selling the metal were spent to establish the Tiflis Workers...
...south wall is the group of the Royall family painted by Feke. Isaac Royall was a Boston merchant who, dying in 1781, provided in his will for a Harvard professorship of law or physic. It was not, however, until 1815 that the Corporation, which had chosen to establish a professorship of law, was able to do so. The Royall Professorship is, next to the Vinerian at Oxford, the oldest named professorship of law in the English-speaking world. The picture has the distinction of being the only painting in the Law School that includes women. On each side...
...last nine or ten years, with but one exception, the Noble lecture has been used as an occasion to invite visiting scholars and churchmen from England to Harvard in the hope that by their speaking here they might at the same time tend to establish closer relations between the English and American churches and universities...
...order to establish a background by the exposition of his research results. Dr. Weiss first described the fundamental features of the human circuitry system. He then examined the causes of high blood pressure, saying at that the most common direct cause lay constant nervous excitement or inherited super-sensitiveness of the vasmotor center of the brain, the governing nervous factor of the heart and the arteries. He pointed out that many patients who are afflicted with high blood pressure experience no ill effects or a long time after they have developed it. While in others its presence is made known...