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...Physical Colloquium. Professor Bridgman on "The Phosphorus Problem," Room 25, Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...student himself not only visits many of these going concerns, but he spends days and sometimes weeks in a careful study of the layout and operation of a manufacturing plant, the management of a department store, the buying and selling system of a concern--in short, every sort of problem that has to be handled by the business manager. He is made familiar through his personal investigations, as well as by the teaching of his instructors, with the mechanism of modern business; he is trained in the modern scientific methods of investigating business facts and of solving the problems that...
President Eliot has also made a special study of the relation of the rising Oriental nations to the problem of world peace, and will undoubtedly offer many valuable suggestions as the result of his experiences in Asia, where he had exceptional facilities for meeting the leading men in all branches of public life...
...experience is possible for practically everyone; the work will not be so strenuous that it is devoid of enjoyment; the wide variety of the training will render it worth while whether the country is ever at war or not. The military camps furnish a solution of the summer problem worthy of much consideration, particularly for those who are still without plans...
...which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...