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...Cruft high tension laboratory building was finished last January, and courses in Physics and Engineering have been held there since mid-years. The new structure, located between the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and Pierce Hall, is the result of a bequest of $50,000 made by Miss Harriet Cruft for research and instruction in high voltage and high frequency electrical phenomena...
...building is three stories high and contains 25 rooms for research and instruction work, five of which are under ground, and will be used as constant temperature rooms. One room, 32 by 44 feet in area, is to contain a storage battery of 100,000 volts for investigations involving constant potential. It will be the highest voltage storage battery in the world, and will require the solution of many problems in insulation and switching devices...
...Press was "inaugurated primarily for the publication of books of a high standard, and aims to aid in the advancement of knowledge by making possible the wide distribution of the work of the foremost scholars of the world. It aims to help in promptly disseminating the results of original research and investigation by printing a number of serial publications. It does not plan, however, to compete with the commercial publisher, since its chief function is the issuing of books that would not be commercially profitable." All books published must receive the endorsement of the syndics of the Press, a body...
...will close the first of November, 1915, at which time the judges, Professor Frankfurter, of the Law School, Professor Gottheil, of Columbia, and Judge Mack, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, will render their decision. Especial emphasis will be laid on the extent and thoroughness of research and the accuracy of detail...
...somewhat ponderous, but thorough discussion, under the head of "The Need of Endowment for Economic Research" points out the importance of economic investigation at this time, and asks financial assistance for the project. L. DeJ. Harvard '15 writes an interesting account of the Cosmopolitan Club, and the editor himself contributes the obituary of the late Hon. Curtis Guild...