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...employers are confronted with the problem of eliminating noise in their offices, for they have found that it consumes strength and attention, and diminishes the efficiency of employees. The question has been solved by Dean Sabine, who, in 1895, began a series of experiments to determine the sound-absorbing qualities of various types of walls, floors, furniture and their coverings. The important result was the discovery that hair felt, when applied to the walls and ceilings, would practically destroy echoes or reverberations of all ordinary sounds, and thus reduce the total volume. Other fabrics, it was found, would absorb sound...
...Saturday, May 23, for the New England intercollegiate championships was granted last week by the College. While this track meet is going on in the Stadium, Harvard will be playing Princeton on the baseball diamond. Because of the difference between the activities it is believed that neither event will absorb interest from the other...
First the effect of forests upon rainfall is to be considered. They cause the presence of a greater total amount of moisture in the air and they cool the air, thereby facilitating its precipitation, while its bed of humus will act like a sponge and absorb the percolation...
...Corporation has voted for the establishment of a school for advanced instruction in medicine to go into operation with the beginning of the academic year 1912-13. This school will eventually absorb the Summer School of Medicine, and will be under the direction of a separate dean, to be assisted by an administrative board. The instruction in the school will be provided, if possible, by the existing departments of the Medical School. Courses will be given under three separate heads: all-day courses, intermittent courses, and research courses...
Scientific training as pursued in graduate departments of American universities has shown a general tendency to absorb a part of the student's time in college by dictating certain courses which must be passed before the more advanced work of the professional schools can be taken up. Undoubtedly students whose college life is thus narrowed by early specialization lose some of the broadening influence which it is the function of the college to impart. Carried to its extreme this demand by scientific schools for students who are at entrance already well grounded in their special subjects might defeat altogether...