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...splendid American piano of today and of its triumph throughout the world." So said Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera House Board of Directors, in announcing that Vice President Coolidge had accepted the chairmanship of the Jonas Chickering Centennial Celebration. Among others joining in the nation-wide move to pay tribute to the father of the American pianoforte are David Belasco, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, William Cardinal O'Connell, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Kreisler...
...matter is made up of "electrons," particles of negative electricity, and "protons," particles of positive electricity. The smallness of the electron is beyond human comprehension. Its diameter is about 30 trillionths of an inch. The most powerful microscope known would barely enable us to see an object 200 atoms wide, and if an atom were about the size of a large office building, an electron would be the size of a pinhead. Professor Thomson was Cavendish professor of experimental physics in Cambridge University from 1884 un- til 1918. During that time he developed a great research laboratory which attracted workers...
...number of volumes of a general type in addition to the textbooks, which are annually collected. The latter will go to the loan library of Phillips Brooks House, while the former will, with the volumes which the Widener Library will donate, comprise the University's part in the state-wide drive which is to be made next week for books for the American Merchant Marine Library Association. This body aims to place a library of about 80 volumes on each American merchant ship, and will try to collect at least 100,000 books during the drive. For its purpose...
...founded a research institution of world-wide influence, the Pasteur Institute of Paris...
...Wassermann's method-he refuses to call it a discovery-is the result of long research based on the groundwork of American and French investigators, during which he tried out more than 500 different serums. He gives credit to the United States for first rank in the world-wide fight against consumption. Most human beings carry the tubercle bacillus in their systems from early childhood, but the majority are able to throw off the disease through their natural powers of resistance. Others fail to develop this immunity and the infection flares up and becomes pulmonary. The new test consists...