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...only it were possible to gear my lectures to a battery of linotype machines,' Dr. Charles A. Beard, then Chairman of the faculty of the New School for Social Research, once said, in lamenting the fact that after a life time of study he was still teaching at best only a few hundred students each year. And so it is with many others whose work has largely been limited to the confines of the class-room...
...especial interest at this time not only because of the course of lectures which Professor Pelliot is giving at the Lowell Institute and the exhibition of Chinese paintings being held in the Fogg Museum, but also because of the fact that Mr. Langdon Warner, "Fellow of the Museum for Research in Asia" is now visiting a famous site in Chinese Turkestan, which was the subject of investigation by Professor Pelliot...
...requirements for eligibility are three-fold. The candidate must be a native of the United States, he must be capable of independent study and original research, and must submit a definite plan of study. Knowledge of a Scandinavian tongue is advisable, and necessary for those who propose to attend lecture courses...
...major catastrophes show a somewhat irregular recurrence, but if we analyze wholesale prices, both of manufactured goods and raw materials, we find a fairly regular cycle of about eight years between peaks. It is all argued with incomparable logic in Generating Economic Cycles-by Dr. Henry Ludwell Moors, Research Professor of Political Economy at Columbia, one of the foremost higher statisticians of the world...
Kammerer. The weight of biological opinion at Cincinnati, as voiced by Dr. Daniel T. MacDougal, Director of Botanical Research at the Carnegie Institution, and General Secretary of the A. A. A. S., was, on the whole, opposed to the claims of Professor Paul Kammerer, of Vienna (TIME, May 12, June 18, Dec. 10), who believes he has experimental proof of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Dr. Kammerer, though now in this country, was not invited to Cincinnati. Most American biologists, while recognizing that animals or plants may have experiences (poisons, for instance), which affect the germ plasm in such...