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...work of the Arequipa station, which has been somewhat reduced in scope in recent years, is expected to take on a new importance with the return of Professor Bailey, who played an important part in its establishment over thirty years ago and served for a long time as its director. He plans to spend the next two years in Peru. In addition to supervising the routine affairs of the station he will continue his studies of the globular star-clusters...
...Godley found a way to make it practical for amateur short waves. This great improvement in sensitiveness lifted the distance into the several hundreds of miles, and opened up great areas over which the excited amateur could communicate. This development, it must be understood was country wide, in its scope, and what was going on in and around Boston was also going on in and around New York and Philadelphia and Chicago and San Francisco, and everywhere else...
...University Committee on Economic Research has proved the practicability of a scientific effort to forecast business conditions. Since 1917 the committee has been making an intensive study of fundamental business statistics with a view to extending their scope and usefulness for commercial and scientific purposes. In 1919 the idea had proved to be of such value that the committee started the publications which have developed in the present system of weekly letters outlining in a simple understandable style the economic conditions, business fluctuations, and any issues of timely interest in the business world...
Chairman Robert Wormser '22 opened the meeting and introduced Mr. John Rothschild '19, Executive Chairman of the National Student Committee for the Limitation of Armaments, who explained the purpose and scope of the movement of which last night's meeting was the first definite expression...
...very incomplete estimate of his range, for he wanders about, the world of men and geography quite indiscriminately, drawing upon all varieties of material for his subjects. Now an Assyrian restaurant proprietor seizes his attention; a moment later, he will be discussing the latest New York "best seller". His scope is indefinite. Nor is he a vague romantic, blinded by fancy to the disagreeable realities of situations and personality, for he treats each new topic with a calculating steadiness that is pleasing, as much in its solid sanity as in its unique charm...