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William H. Geer, Harvard director of physical education, reported to an Athletic Research Society meeting in Atlanta as follows: In a group of 159 oarsmen who rowed between 1852 and 1900, 67 had died in 1920; the total number of years lived by them plus the probable number of years to be lived was 7,389 years. According to the life-expectancy tables there would have been 96 deaths and a total of only 6,709 years lived...
Bacon. The 300th anniversary was fittingly observed of the publication of the Novum Organum, the master work of Sir Francis Bacon (1561- 1626), who, while not a great investigator himself, laid the foundation of modern scientific research by his insight into the true spirit and method of science. Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, of Smith College, Dr. Mark Liddell, of Purdue University, and other scientific historians paid tribute to Lord Bacon's vast influence over subsequent thought...
...these results Professor Lowes has tried to give the undergraduate a greater chance than he has had before to use the tools which he has gathered. In graduate work of most kinds emphasis is placed on theses, and reports, and individual work done with the aid of these tools. "Research" is little more than original work of the same sort. But if the name "research" were connected with this new system it would sound ominous to the undergraduate. Hence this compromise between the examination and the report is as yet nameless, and has not been widely advertised...
When one reads that a dinosaur egg of ten million years vintage is to be auctioned off by the New York Museum of Natural History to raise funds for continued Asiatic Research, one must wonder what market this stony curiosity will find. Mr. Andrews, the chief curator and wielder of the hammer in the present sale, evidently has no question for he states that bids will open at five thousand dollars. Certainly if any private citizen should buy it and not use it in the foundation of his house or as a stepping stone, he would need a room "founded...
Colonel Furlong's other activities include art-studies at Paris, ethnological research, and an enviable war record, ending in a high position with the Peace Commission. His trips of exploration have taken him all over the world. Child and the Tierra del Fuego, however, are reported to have been his chief interests...