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...today. It is simply a story, a powerful, unembroidered study of three characters who find themselves in a difficult and potenially tragic situation. A nerve specialist who marries a patient whom he does not love in order to save her life, thereby abandoning temporarily a priceless opportunity for research work in Germany (needless to say this is before the war)-that is the "point of departure" which provides a couple of excellent acting parts. The reaction of the individuals to this sate of affairs as the woman regains health constitutes the play-simple, direct, and frequencly "gripping...
...began by considering the function of a university in regard to the pursuit of truth. He showed that in America, professors are so bound down by teaching and lecturing that they have little time for original research work. He contrasted with the liberal schedule of professors in European of only about three hours, a week a professor's time could be devoted to research; and as a result he might have at the end of the year a book, full of fresh and internist material...
Applications for the Belt Fellowships for scientific research at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in England must be received on or before April 19. The elections will take place on July 15 and the three successful candidates will be notified immediately...
These three fellowships valued at 175 pounds or approximately $850 apiece are presented annually from a fund given in 1913 by Mr. Otto Beit of England. The successful candidates will devote all of their time during the year to original, scientific research at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in South Kensington near London, and at the end of this period are expected to compile the results of their work in the form of a book. Candidates for these fellowships may be either men or women who are under 25 years of age, both of whose parents...
Psychic and scientific investigation of the realms lying "beyond the veil" has been popular ever since De Foe invented Mrs. Beal, but the possibilities are apparently endless. The latest wrinkle comes with the announcement that Dr. Prince, director of the American Institute for Scientific Research, has gone into the wilds of Nova Scotia to track down a ghost which, evidently considering itself an outlaw, refuses to behave according to our preconceived notions of such things. And with him the good doctor has taken an "elaborate equipment of bells, cameras, flashlights, wires and white tracking powder". Shades of Friar Bacon...