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...addition to the continued observations of the new planet "Eros," carried on by Professor Pickering and Professor Wendell, at the Observatory, there is an unusually large amount of photographic work now being done by the department in intricate astronomical research...
...Estate of Robert C. Billings, 85,000.00 Estate of Henry L. Pierce, 15,000.00 Benjamin E. Cotting (proceeds of life policy to establish the "Cotting Gift" in the Medical School), 3,029.59 J. Randolph Coolidge (towards purchase of Riant collection), 2,000.00 Anonymous (to be used for original physical research), 250.00 J. J. Storrow and F. P. Fish (to purchase boiler and engine for steam launch for the benefit of the Department of Engineering), 550.00 J. H. Gardiner (to be added to Francis James Child Memorial Fund),60.00 E. J. Wendell (toward furnishing Brooks House), 50.00 Henry L. Higginson (deficit...
...books), 59.65John Harvey Trent (for expense of the Portion of Riant Library devoted to theology and hagiography), 800.00Alexander Agassiz (for changes and improvements at the new boat house), 6,145.00J. K. Paine (for purchase of books and expenses of chamber Concerts), 17.97Theobald Smith. (for research in Laboratory of Comparative Pathology), 25.00Mr. Alexander Agassiz, Mr. and Mrs. Quincy Adams, Mrs. Henry L. Higginson (for completion of University Museum), 100,000.00Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw (for instruction in Sloyd for the Cuban teachers). 400.00Total...
...back on the great theory of the metamorphosis of motion. The vibrations which produce the senses, says materialism, set the brain into motion, which in turn arouses consciousness and through it the nerves and the body are set in motion. This argument, however, must fall before the strictest psychological research. In reality the brain vibrations themselves set the nerves in motion, and in the circle from the sense vibrations to the resulting bodily movements consciousness nowhere enters in. Consciousness is not aroused by brain action, it is not a link in the chain of physical sensations and it need...
Professor Dyer is a graduate both of Harvard and Oxford, and was formerly Assistant Professor of Greek at Harvard. Of recent years he has been studying at the University of Oxford, and has been actively connected with the recent research in primitive Greek Art, especially in that of the Mycenaean Period...