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...developed its own automatic control which consists of a thermostat, a single seated pressure-regulating valve, and an outdoor mercold thermometer. When the heat is turned on in the morning, the thermometer turns off the excess flow of steam and allows only enough to enter the building to maintain a constant temperature. If the outside temperature rises, the mercold thermometer still further shuts the regulating valve. This has greatly cut down the running expenses
...Arts and Sciences, a larger number than was chosen from the faculty of any other university, is an indication that Harvard's staff is still one of the foremost in the country. It is a tribute to Harvard's scholarship and at the same time an admonition that to maintain her standing, faculty replacement must continue to embody those fundamental policies which have functioned so successfully hitherto...
...primary problems of the new administration is this question of faculty replacement. If Harvard is to maintain her traditional high place among American universities, she must see to it that her faculty continues to be characterized by profound scholarship, intellectual creativeness, and progressive temperament; those qualities, in short, which make possible the election of educators to the American Academy of Sciences...
...University is to maintain its standing as one of the foremost educational institutions of the country. It must adopt a policy of faculty replacement which provides for competent instruction of its students as well as opportunities for research men. The men who are assigned to teaching for the most part much not be expected to do research work in order to secure promotion but must merit advancement according to their ability to understand their subject, keep up with its developments, and impart it intelligibly to students. Research and enlightenment much aid and abet each other. No educational institution can maintain...
...blackamoors whom the Turks brought from Abyssinia and emasculated to stand dispassionate guard over their women, remain. Some have found jobs in Istanbul's national museum. Others work as doormen, waiters, handymen, servants. The rich and successful eunuchs who once held vast power in Turkey, help to maintain clubs near the great oldtime palaces, where the destitute members of their lost calling gather, dress up, observe the old etiquet, gossip, intrigue and try to keep back their tears. They love platonically and when disappointed, sometimes lose their appetite, develop consumption...