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Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They arc selected primarily for the information they contain, cither supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...
...Bovie G. '13, professor of biophysics at the Medical School, acting in conjunction with President C. C. Little '10 of the University of Maine, demonstrated yesterday at the University of Maine laboratories that ultraviolet rays obtained by the use of a fused quartz mercury vapor arc lamp are beneficial to health. These two scientists have been conducting a series of experiments with chickens, and their findings reveal important medical properties of this light...
With the fliers out of sight, the crowd watched the west. The broadcaster droned: "Here comes Mills." Then: "Here comes Skeel. Note his speed." Down from a great height swooped the plane, catapulting toward the starting line in a wide arc. Then tragedy. The machine was seen to disintegrate, like a cardboard toy. A wing broke completely away, fluttered down. The crippled fuselage spun, dove precipitately behind a row of trees. Flying sticks and clods of earth, visible to the crowd a mile and a half away, told of Skeel's instant death-the first fatality in all five...
President Doumergue drove from the Palais d'Elysées to the Arc de Triomphe at the top of the Champs Elysées. Here, in the presence of the Ministers, he deposited a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Poilu, instead of attending the usual military revue...
...constant-current regulator for arc light dynamos (he perfected the arc lamp), the induction motor, the art of welding metals by electricity, the magnetic blow-out for switches, lightning erectors of various types, constant current transmitters, a generator which was "one of the first and most effective and ingenious" in early electrical development, a recording watt hour metre. In the field of mechanical engineering he is respon sible for important developments in steam engines, steam turbines and the internal combustion engine...