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...General Electric Company of Schenectady, New York, has just announced the eight winners of the Charles A. Coffin foundation fellowships, given in the fields of electricity, physics, and chemistry to United States scholars for research work abroad or at home during...
...research problems in which they will engage include the X-ray-quantum theory; the Zeeman effect on fluorine; insulation with special relation to absorption; structure of steel with effect of carbon concentrated...
...life are of a high order, hardly matched, to my way of thinking, in other callings. One is constantly in the company of men of culture and of intellect. A teacher who is really alive experiences the joy of creative work, both in his teaching and in whatever research or writing he may be able to do. Books and libraries are his daily food and drink. Although he must give much time to his work, the ordering of his time is more flexibly in his own hands than in that of the business man in his sweating years of approach...
...such lies the real challenge to his ingenuity and his power. If he is interested only in absorbing knowledge, or in the higher subtleties of his subject, without the more human qualities to which I have referred, he might well question his fitness for teaching, however well qualified for research. The teacher is essentially a giver. Any who profoundly but not sentimentally have that attitude will often succeed where even the more intellectually gifted may fall. Naturally diffidence, undue self-consciousness, hesitance or monotony of speech, and other comparable characteristic are, if persistent checks on full mastery in teaching...
Joseph Arthur Coletti of Quincy, a special student, receives the important Sachs Research Fellowship in Fine Arts, established in 1916 for advanced study in any part of the world. Other traveling fellowship winners are as follows: Royal Delaney Hughes, 2G, of Table Grove, III., and Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. '24, of Boston, John Knowles Paine Fellowship in Music; Charles Holt Taylor, 3G, of Maplewood, N. J., a Bayard Cutting Fellowship; Paul Richard Harmel 1G, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Hartshorne 3G, of Phoenixville, Pa., Rogers Fellowships; Jay W. Jacobs of Carthage, Mo., an Edward R. Bacon Art Scholarship; Howard Kennedy...