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...Last week Science stripped the thought of its poesy by proclaiming that the similitude has a chemical basis. Alcohol, announced Chemist S. G. Hibben of the Westinghouse Lamp Co., is produced in leaves by a fermentation that sets in when plants reach a cycle of life during which they reject sunlight regardless of the weather...
...three years voluntary consolidations of railways are invited. The Interstate Commerce Commission would have the power to approve or reject such mergers. During this three-year period any railway which earns more than 6% on its valuation may place half the excess in a reserve fund, and must give the remaining half to the Government for distribution pro rata among railways which have earned less than...
...Bishops at New Orleans this fall defends his booklet as follows:--"It was not intended as a retraction of any representation of the booklet, but as an explanation of how I can hold to my new faith without giving up the old-accept the revelation of science, yet not reject that of tradition, and be at once a Modernist, Fundamentalist, Christian, Jew, Mohammedar, Buddhist and what...
...late Senator William A. Clark of Montana was refused by the Metropolitan Museum because the provisions of the Senator's will "would preclude the inclusion of these objects with other like exhibits" (TIME, Aug. 10), it seemed likely that the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, substitute legatee, would reject it too for lack of room. Last week President Charles C. Glover of the Corcoran Gallery announced that certain parties had contributed $700,000 for the building of a wing to house the collection. The certain parties were the late Senator's widow, his three daughters...
...favor of the tutorial system, as he has heard of it by report from the few colleges in which it has actually been tried. It may seem strange and incongruous, that students of Harvard, where the tutorial system has been tried with such great success, should hesitate and finally reject the proposal to extend that system to the exclusion of the lecture system. We believe, however, that such will be the general reaction at Harvard to Dr. Meiklejohn's suggestion...