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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, an honorary engineering society corresponding to the Phi Beta Kappa in liberal arts colleges, elected an advisory board of four graduate members at the first meeting of the season held Wednesday night. The board consists of Albert Palmer '23, elected for four years; M. S. Bromwell '23, elected for three years; J. G. Peter 1G.E.S., elected for two years; and Charles Weller '23, elected for one year. It was also decided to send President E. P. Nelson 4E.S. as a delegate to the national convention of the fraternity to be held soon...
...society was established and chartered at the Engineering School last June after petitioning for over a year for a charter. It is the third chapter to be founded in Massachusetts, the Alpha chapter being at the Worcester Polytechnical School and the Beta chapter at Technology: The fraternity is especially strong in the Middle West with headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn. The charter members at Harvard were elected on a basis of their grades as furnished by the Administrative Board of the School...
Degrees are studied for and taken optionally in sequence, depending on a favorable ballot of those already accepted. As progress is made up- wards, the number accepted decreases rapidly. The four chief classes of degrees: "Grand Chapter of the Royal Arch," " Mark Grand Lodge," "Great Priory of Knights Templars," "Ancient and Accepted Rite." These are mutually complementary...
...practically self-educated. Yet I became a teacher, and later a journalist. One of my early books was The Big Bow Mystery, written to prove that it is possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting Pot are more representative of my numerous novels and plays. I have lectured in Great Britain, Ireland, Jerusalem, Holland...
...Paris Observatory expedition, under Camille Flammarion, will also be in Mexico. M. Flammarion thus adds another chapter to his eventful history that began in 1842 in the reign of Louis Philippe. At four he could read. At six he had completed what is equivalent to a grammar school education. His astronomical career was determined by the occurrence of two eclipses of the sun?one when he was five, the other when he was nine. He went to Paris and studied, "on nothing a year." He passed the examinations for the Observatory and at 16 was the author of the first...