Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interesting to note the geographical division of the honor men. Greater Boston, of course, leads with twenty-four men; New Hampshire has thirteen, far out of proportion to her total enrolment. Nearly all of the men come from the New England states; distant states are practically unrepresented. Mesa, Arizona, sends the one representative of the Far West. Perhaps the most interesting contributor of all is the Realgymnasium of Bremen, Germany. Out of the clouds of war, Germany is the only foreign nation whose scholarship is represented in the list. Even world-strife will not conquer her intellectual supremacy...
...life nobly devoted to intellectual and scientific research was that of Percival Lowell, who is dead at Flagstaff, Arizona, where in 1894 he erected his great astronomical observatory. Mr. Lowell had already attained honor in another field of research when his interest in astronomy, and his conviction that the altitude and atmosphere of Flagstaff offered an opportunity for perhaps a more intimate scrutiny of the planets than any which had yet been made, led him to begin his great work at that point. He had won rank for his use of the scientific imagination in the field of Japanese occultism...
...Flagstaff remains, to be not only a monument to his spirit and his zeal, but to be also the lasting and the best means of demonstrating whether he was right or wrong. And in the last analysis, Mr. Lowell himself would have desired nothing more than that the clear Arizona air and the superb instruments which he provided there should find out all that human ingenuity may possibly make know, not only about Mars, but about other planets and the stars. He has lived a useful life, which honors the city of his birth and the University of his education...
...recognition as qualified to take part in the civic life of this our city. And we might have picked up an occasional idea about street lighting, sidewalks, paving, city managers, budgets, etc., in some Missouri town, which could be of service here. Not as inhabitants and qualified voters of Arizona and Florida would we take part in politics in Cambridge, but as workers in one of the great industries of Cambridge. EMMET RUSSELL...
...Lecture "The Meteor Crater in Arizona," by Professor William F. Magie of Princeton University in the large lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...