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Here, it seems, is an opportunity for the chemical departments of our universities, as well as our industrial chemists, to do the country a great service. Our research workers are second to none; surely, among them, they can find means to cheapen the production of our present dyes to a point that will enable us to fight off our German rivals. Then, too, there is always the possibility of stumbling on some new compound that will revolutionize the industry. The prizes in the chemical field are large no one who works out a first-class process will ever go hungry...
Joseph S. Davis '08, assistant professor of economics at the University, has been elected one of the three joint directors of the Food Research Institute at Stanford University, which is to study problems of the production, distribution and consumption of food under an agreement between Stanford and the Carnegie Corporation of New York...
...need for a Food Research Institute was first suggested by Herbert Hoover, who is to be a member of its advisory committee and has presented to Stanford University a collection of material on the economic side of the war which will be of value to the Institute. The work will begin in July...
...various athletic teams were called into conference and suggestions from members of the Faculty were invited. A study of the report shows clearly that the statistics compiled are interpreted with caution, and that it is possible to obtain a reliable index of the general trend by means of statistical research. For example, there has been much loose talk about the relation between athletics and scholarship. The report now published settle this question for all unbiased minds. It has particularly brought into relief two facts: that participants in athletics are only slightly below the average standard of scholarship, and that...
...translated from Spanish in- to Italian, in which language it will be given entirely, has never before been produced in this country. The plot opens in the home of Dr. Spinosi, a pompous professor of Philosophy who, has founded at the provincial village of Villatriste an "Academy" devoted to research of a ponderous and complicated nature...