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...bring out the depth of color apparent at the height of the eclipse. Mr. Hewitt, on the other hand, apparently took only one. He used the same process as that adopted by the Princeton man, the Lumiere super-sensitized plate, but adapted it to eclipse photography after careful research work...
...possibilities of a university at any period are limited. An attempt to train students for a new career detracts to some extent from the resources in hand, or obtainable, which could otherwise be used to maintain or improve existing instruction or research. In deciding, therefore, to undertake any work it is necessary to inquire whether the service to be rendered is greater or less than attempting to improve existing departments of the University. and this will depend upon the needs of those departments, and upon the question whether it is better to have a limited number of departments...
...company went forth at the in stance of the Department of Tropical Research of the New York Zoological Society. The Arcturus, equipped for deep-sea fishing, has a drum and seven miles of cable, with trawls to catch fish at various depths. One of the chief objects of this Odyssey is to catch the self-illuminated deep-sea fish, the little monsters of the great depths. Dr. Beebe has expressed hope of capturing a giant squid, one of the great octopi with tentacles many feet in length. Scars which these sucking tentacles have left have been found on whales' sides...
...rather difficult to master, students at Harvard, as well as in Liverpool, tend to avoid these studies. I find that American students are eager to learn and co-operate splendidly with the professor. I have never seen a finer library than Widener, for the organization is such that research is made most easy." Professor Halliday was graduated from Oxford, 1908, and has since held professorships at the Universities of Glasgow and Liverpool...
...report published yesterday by the economic research bureau of Stanford University points to an entirely different cause. The international price of wheat has been higher than the American price. Until December the rates on Canadian and Argentinian wheat shipped to Europe was above the price in the United States. Wheat shortages in Europe have been drawing surplus crops from the rest of the world. If the European crops are heavy next fall, the American price will recede from the present high mark. The explanation of these fluctuations is due to economic factors...