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...Columbia University, and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard went to the University of the State of New York (Albany) to receive LL. D.'s, at the college's 65th annual convocation. Said Harvard's Lowell: "The aim or goal [of American education] should be as remote as possible, consistently with its being not so far off that thought of it can be postponed for the present." Said Columbia's Butler: "If parents are to turn over the entire training of their children to school teachers and to abdicate their own just authority and responsibility...
Director Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott of the Smithsonian Institution has worked on sun engines. There is one, the Eaneas, working at low efficiency at Pasadena, Calif. At Meadi, near Cairo, Egypt, the Shumann engine produces 60 h.p. Its reflectors cover an acre. If an efficient and practical sun engine can be built, its sun source of energy is not only free but stupendous in quantity. The energy falling on a square mile of earth on a bright sunny day with a clear atmosphere is equivalent to two or three million horsepower. According to Dr. Abbott the sun energy reaching...
...successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe it or not, I'm a stowaway...
...Preston 2L. McKinlock B22 *F. A. Pickard 1 G.B. McKinlock C22 *F. McC. Eaton 3L. McKinlock D23 R. F. Doolittle 3L. McKinlock E23 *F. O. Mattiessen Perkins 16 G. K. Zipf '23 Perkins 60 Prof. J. L. Walsh Randolph 4 Fulmer Mood '21 Randolph 21 Charles C. Abbott 2G. Russell 7 *Phoenix Belknap, 2Arch. George Smith A21 Mason Hammond '27 James Smith A 23 *James C. Cooley 3L. James Smith A21 Asst. Dean Langley C. Keyes James Smith C21 E. C. Haggerty 3L. James Smith C26 C. E. Gleason '27 Standish A14 Sterling Dow 4G. Standish C32 Henry Weymer...
...Denmark's August Krogh, 1920 Nobel Prizewinner for physiology of the capillaries; England's Archibald Vivian Hill, 1922 Nobel Prizewinner for research of muscular contraction; Belgium's Leon Fredericq, president of the second (1892) Congress. Present too were U. S. Surgeon-General Hugh S. Gumming and Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell...