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...late Mr. Morrill Wyman '77, of Cambridge, recently filed in probate the greater part of an estate valued at $500,000 is bequeathed to the University. After a few private bequests have been provided for, one-half of the residue is left to establish a fund for medical research in the University the sum of $50,000 is also given to the College "for the promotion of good citizenship by the study of republican government," and a further sum of $50,000 will eventually revert to the University...
...appointments of the Corporation, made last spring and fall will take effect next term. Professor Atwood formerly of the University of Chicago, will begin duties here as Professor of Geology and Geography. He will give courses A, (Physiography); 6, (Physiography of the United States); and 20a (Research). Professor Atwood is one of the foremost geologists and physiographers of the country, having been the geologist of the New Jersey and Illinois survey and, since 1909, of the United States Geological Survey. He has taken active part in the proceedings of a large number of the geological and geographical associations...
...Assistant Professor of Physics has just been announced. Professor Duane in the future will devote the greater part of his time to the physiological action of radioactive substances and to the problems in physics directly connected with this subject at the Harvard Medical School. He will also direct the research work of advanced students of physical radioactivity in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...Pennsylvania in 1892, and from Harvard in 1893, the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1895, and the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Berlin in 1897. After six years of study in the Curie Radium Laboratory at Paris, he returned to the University last fall as Research Fellow of the Cancer Commission of Harvard University...
...teaching is done at the Observatory, all the time of the staff there is spent in research work which is recorded in the seventy-five quarto volumes published by the institution. It is part of a great international plan for the purpose of studying the heavens and all of its work has not so much local as international significance. A society representing all the leading nations divided the sky into about twenty zones for the purpose of thorough observation and two of these zones were taken by the Harvard Observatory...