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German 5 is rather dull and monotonous in presentation. Daily throughout the year the student prepares about eight pages of his book and translates only a few words in class. The alert can determine exactly when they are to be called on, thus making it quite unnecessary to awaken for...
German 5 is dull and monotonous in presentation. Daily throughout the year the student prepares about eight pages in his book and translates only a few words in class. The alert can determine exactly when they are to be called upon, thus making it quite unnecessary to awaken for more...
Trippers on the Furness liner Queen of Bermuda last week were treated to a demonstration of a new aid to mariners-a device which pierces fog and darkness to tell the navigator what obstacles lie near his ship. Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil calls the device a "fog-eye." To watch...
* Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), unlearned Dutch merchant's clerk, was first man to recognize bacteria and protozoa with a microscope. But not until Louis Pasteur did anyone explain the meaning of Leeuwenhoek's "little animals." Last year Clifford Dobell, English protistologist (student of unicellular organisms), nephew of...
Dr. Stebbins began the work on Madison s hill. Last year he got a leave of absence, went out to California's Mt Wilson. To Mt. Wilson's 100-in. reflector he attached a photo-electric cell (which translates faint light into a current of electricity) and continued...