Word: aides
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...curative effect of the ultra violet rays in certain forms of skin diseases, investigation was started by Professor Trowbridge upon the relative activity of these rays in the vapors of different metals. The method of study is an entirely new one and is only made possible by the aid of the large battery in the laboratory. An investigation was also taken up at the same time, on the subject of magnetism--to decide what degree of alternating current will reduce iron to a state of copper as far as magnetism is concerned. These two experiments are still in progress...
...attention has been called to a printed circular sent out by a person who describes himself as "a tutor of eight years' experience," offering aid in Economics by "an experienced assistant in close touch with men in the Department...
...implication in this circular that officers of instruction in the courses in Economics aid in coaching of this kind, or are "in touch" with it, is quite without warrant. And it is hardly necessary for me to say that assistants and other instructors do not engage directly in tutoring in their courses. The statement above quoted is simply a misleading advertising device. F. W. TAUSSIG...
...annual report of the Peabody Museum presented by the Curator, Professor F. W. Putnam, has just been made public. Professor Putnam prefaces his report with a plea for aid in the completion of the Museum building. When the new south corner of the University Museum is finished there will remain only one hundred feet of the south wing to be built in order to complete the structure as planned by Agassiz forty years ago. This space, originally allotted for the extension of the anthropological section, is already much needed. The material of the collections, gathered during thirty-four years...
...would, therefore, be an immense benefit to the club to hire another instructor, who could devote more of his time to developing and perfecting the team. But as the membership dues of the club are only two dollars a year and as the team does not get any financial aid from the Athletic Committee, this step is at present out of the question...