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...Physical Colloquium, Monday, in the Cruft Laboratory Lecture Room, C. K. Jen will speak on "A New Treatment of Electron Tube Oscillators" and I. F. Birch is to lecture on "Concentrated Space Charge in Calcite." The talks occur at 4.45 o'clock after a tea served in the library of the New Physics Laboratory...
...this country we seek to compel obedience to law by . . . death, imprisonment, fines. In England and Canada flogging by birch or by 'the cat' also is in-flicted." Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the President's Law Enforcement Commission, now preparing its report at Washington, wrote that in a paper read for him last week before the American Prison Association at Louisville, Ky. He concluded: "A careful inquiry . . . may well be made to determine the desirability of employing [flogging] in the war against banditry and racketeers...
...first portraits, he turned to mural decoration "because there seemed to be a call for that sort of thing." Shortly thereafter he got a divorce, and, exhilarated, turned out an amazing series of panels and screens, one of which, showing a horde of giraffes nibbling the tender branches of birch trees, now stands in the Luxembourg Museum...
...Bartlett has lent his well-known Still Life by Cezanne from the Birch-Bartlett Collection in the Art Institute of Chicago. In this, as in the landscape ("Tournant de Route a Auvers") lent by Mr. John Nicholas Brown, Cezanne is shown as the searcher of new paths and rhythms. The modelling is done by means of colour...
...state produces more hardwood lumber than any other except Arkansas. And it has on its mountains great wealth in yellow poplar, birch, ash, oak, spruce, hemlock, walnut. They too must be wisely utilized...