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...International Education Board, a Rockefeller philanthropy, appropriated $40,000 for Prof. Niels Bohr, the atomic expert of the University of Copenhagen (TIME, Nov. 19), for the enlargement of his research laboratory in theoretical physics. American physicists as well as others from foreign countries will conduct investigations in the Danish laboratory, which is supported in part by the Danish government. Dr. Bohr will specialize on investigation of the infra-red region of the spectrum and on X-ray spectra...
After a century of intensified research, physicists are coming back to the old hypothesis of William Prout that all matter is made up of one fundamental stuff--hydrogen. The laws of conservation of mass and energy, and the law of limited transmutability of matter, too, are in a state of flux. Calvin Page disregards completely the efforts of such eminent workers as Rutherford, Aston, J. J. Thomson, Soddy, and Millikan, and boldly launches forth upon the exploitation of his formula, phlogistic in its nature, intended to explain all natural phenomena in a "common-sense" way. He is backed...
Professor Feuillerat explained that his method of teaching was to require reports in class at frequent intervals on problems of research. These he criticized very rigidly, often demonstrating in detail how the work should have been done...
...always good for any group to receive new suggestions from outside, either as to knowledge, or the method of acquiring it. And of late years French scholarship and research methods have done much to broaden the horizon of literary men the world over. German scholarship was long considered supreme, with its careful, obsequious attention to detail, and its exhaustive thoroughness. But in the last century a French influence made itself felt, broadening the conception of the world "research". A group of French scholars achieved success which surpassed the reputation of the German, and helped to bring about the sort...
...last lecture, on February 26, Professor Alfred C. Lane '83, Pearson Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Tufts College, will discuss "Some Contacts of Geology and Religion". Professor Lane is also a delegate of the Geological Society of America to the National Research Council...