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...Library of the Blue Hill Observatory appears this year for the first time as a constituent part of the University Library. It is a well-chosen collection intended for those engaged in research work in meteorology, climatology, and aerodynamics, and contains 8,000 volumes and 5,000 pamphlets. These were gathered together by the late Abbott Lawrence Rotch, who for more than 30 years of his life gave special attention to the acquisition of standard treatises, rare issues, and volumes of exceptional merit and interest...
...faulty as is the senator's research of history his ignorance of present day conditions is even worse. He denounces our colleges is even worse. He denounces our colleges as 'reactionary' and the 'greatest dead-weight the capitalist can fasten upon the necks of the American people. 'Politics,' he says, the colleges look upon as a low pursuit, and college opinion is regarded by our legislators as a joke. He thinks it a great pity that the political arm of our State and National Governments should not receive support from our colleges. Never in the history of the country have...
...condition that this student will contract to serve in the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works during the year 1915-16 at a suitable salary. The student must have taken at least Chemistry 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11. Preference will be given to a men wishing a broad theoretical training in research as a foundation for subsequent practice of technical chemistry. The time for receiving applications has been changed from April 1 to March 15, when they should be sent to Professor G. B. Baxter, Chairman of the Division of Chemistry...
...Bureau of Business Research has recently published a second bulletin giving a more detailed account of its investigation of the retail shoe industry. The work is similar in character to that which the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural schools have done for farming...
After speaking briefly on the four periods of Inca history, Professor Bingham went directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...