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...well as to the country, the new school seems to us history-making, for it means the broadening of the university into an institution of more practical value than it has ever been before. It means that we are striving to meet with understanding the problems that have hitherto been haphazard. The college is going to be put to a great test, but we are confident that it will prove its claim to recognition as an instrument of enormous practical value in the community...
...Hitherto athletics have been rather sparsely followed in France, no one participating except he who went in for the love of it, for no recognition of even a private nature has been accorded to victors in the several fields. Consequently France has been making a poor showing at the Olympic games in comparison with such nations as Japan or Chile, and has been forced to rely on one young lady to uphold her prestige in tennis...
...centre for the discovery and crystallization of student opinion. It also took the initiative in, and was largely responsible for, the organization of the Territorial Clubs Federation, donating the use of its rooms for the meetings of that body. It expended for entertainment more than double the highest amount hitherto expended, and treble the amount expended last year. Such a policy, increasing as it does the value of the Union to the student body, can scarcely fail to have a favorable effect upon its membership...
Courses in the Forestry School which have hitherto been given in Cambridge, will be removed to the Bussey Institution, Jamaica Plain, this spring, according to recent plans by the Department of Forestry. At present, that spring, summer, and early fall are spent at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, Mass., and the winter months at Cambridge where lectures have been given in Lawrence and Robinson Halls...
...contribution of fundamental importance in the study of matter has been advanced recently by Professor Theodore William Richards. Hitherto, the theory of the incompressibility of atoms has been generally accepted, but for Years Professor Richards has been making observations that have led him to reject the theory. He now advance the opinion that changes in volume are not due to changes in the extent of empty space between the molecules, but to changes in the volume of atoms. That is, atoms change under varying conditions. As Professor Richards points out, this theory is not so arbitrary as the now accepted...