Word: light
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...light of all the efforts that have been made within the last ten years to free athletics from professionalism, it might be well to consider professionalism in scholarship. Whereas the athlete after months of faithfulness and perseverance earns the right to wear the University insignia, and looks upon this as sufficient reward, the compensation most known to the public for scholarship here is a money prize. Perhaps this difference in the kind of reward given to athletes and to scholars may in a slight measure account for the difference of esteem in which the two are held by college...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The Distribution of Light in the Diffraction Spectra from a Grating." Professor N. A. Kent. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...recent investigation made by the editor of the Bulletin throws new and valuable light on the relation of marks in College to success in after life. Dean Briggs, Dean Wells, and Professor F. E. Farrington '94 each submitted a list of men in the class of '94 whom they considered successful. Twenty-three men were on all three lists. The college records of there were looked up and compared with those of the same number of members of the class taken at random. The "successful" men were found to have obtained in examinations...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "The Distribution of Light in the Diffraction Spectra from a Grating." Professor N. A. Kent. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...light has been thrown on the much-discussed title of this editorial by an article, printed in a recent number of "Science" from the pen of Professor Cattell of Columbia. The special phase of the question considered in this work is the prominence of the scientists who are faculty members in the leading universities of this country. Professor Cattell's statistics, given below, show the number of men working at several universities, who may be ranked among the thousand leading American men of science. Number of Gain since Institutions. men.* 1906. Harvard, 79.5 +13 Columbia, 48.0 --12 Chicago...