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...Endowment Fund drive which is going on at present, is intended to provide means whereby the School may grow, but the present action is absolutely necessary at this time because the applications for admission have been gradually increasing each year, and 600 represents the maximum number which can be cared for under present conditions...
There are three exciting adventures now in progress, according to Professor Davis, which if successful will revolutionize the transformation of heat into power, which is the basis of all mechanical. engineering. The development of a steam pressure of 1200 pounds to the square inch, or over four times the maximum pressure possible a decade ago, is imminent. The use of mercury turbines which, although dangerous to the extreme, would save infinite leakage of heat is the second of these experiments. The third is a new internal combustion engine involving a water jacket which would eliminate the necessary high temperatures...
Stationary but not unoccupied, the tax reduction bill remained in the Senate Finance Committee, preparing for its appearance in the upper House. The most important thing which befell the bill was the displacement of the Longworth compromise tax rates (maximum surtax 371/2%) by the original Mellon rates (maximum surtax 25%). This was done by vote of 8 to 7. Two members of the Committee were absent. One of them, Senator LaFollette, would have voted with the Democrats against the change. The other, Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois, Republican, was classified as "uncertain." In their double absence, however, the thing...
...other universities, is established for the purpose of training men to defend their country against external aggression. No better security for peace could be devised today than a nation of a hundred millions following peaceful pursuits but ready to take up arms if necessary and defend itself with the maximum of efficiency and the minimum of cost in lives and dollars. The Military Science department teaches preparedness, not militarism, and in this doctrine it has had the support of Presidents Roosevelt, Wilson, and Harding...
...organized attempt at broadcasting programs from England to the U. S. last week was only a partial success, apparently because of atmospheric interference. Eight high-powered British stations (at London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Glasgow, Aberdeen) were linked up by telephone into a "super-radio" system having a maximum energy of twelve kilowatts, operated from the Hotel Savoy, London, A program of band music and a speech by Senator Guglielmo Marconi was broadcasted. But very few Americans, amateurs or professionals, were able to receive the English program at all, and of the scattered few who did, in New York...