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...addition to the regular routine at the Blue Hill station semi-daily observations have been made of audibility and of the refraction of Mt. Wachusetts. The possibility of kite flying in calm weather from moving steamers was demonstrated. This discovery will open an extensive field for research, especially in the tropics...
...that poetry is the outward sign of the social sense in man, indicated by "the consent of rhythm," and not implying, in its primitive forms at least, any depth of purpose or feeling. Proofs regarding the truth of this proposition are taken from ethnology from the results of psychological research, and from the history of poetry itself. With this premise, the rest of the subject matter falls naturally into place. The dualism of poetry is first discussed, that is, its division into "one class where the communal spirit and environment condition the actual making, and into another class where...
Physical Colloquium. The Present Direction of Physical Research. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Physical Colloquium. The Present Direction of Physical Research. Professor Trowbridge. Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
...engaged in his work in California, Professor Putnam was invited by President Wheeler, of the University of California, and by Mrs. P. A. Hearst, one of the regents, to organize a department of Anthropology in the University. Mrs. Hearst has donated 850,000 a year for five years for research in Anthropology, and Professor Putnam is chairman of the committee in charge of the research. Some portion of the fund will be devoted to the exhaustive study of geological deposits, to try to ascertain when man first appeared in California, and some will be used to study the great variety...