Word: crufts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Progress in the building activities in the University during the academic year 1914-15 has been marked by the completion of two new buildings, the Widener Library and the Cruft Memorial Laboratory; and additions have been made to the University Museum and the Gray Herbarium in the Botanic Garden. The new Germanic Museum and the CRIMSON building on Plympton street are now under construction...
...Cruft Memorial High Tension Laboratory recently heard from stations on the pacific coast. A while ago it was announced that a message had been received from Berlin. This is not equally remarkable, as will be explained later. Messages from Germany have been received frequently since, and are now no longer the exception. The wireless has also received calls from various southern posts over a thousand miles away. The reach seems to be constantly developing under the expert guidance of the men back of the undertaking...
...progress of the department has been steady, and at present the laboratory is engaged in research work of interest to the whole scientific world. The erection of the Cruft High Tension Laboratory has marked a departure into a new field of investigation. Experiments with the wireless telephone, begun a few years ago by Professor Peirce and Dr. Chaffee, have been resumed recently. Moreover, direct wireless communication with Berlin has lately been established...
...violet rays, and Professor Sabine's investigation of the transmission of sound, and its applications to building materials are among the many important researches going on. At present, there are more than a score of pieces of investigation in progress in the Jefferson Laboratory, with many more in the Cruft. Work so brilliant and of so advanced a nature merits the recognition and approbation of the University in general...
Late last night a wireless was received at the Cruft Laboratory, addressed to the CRIMSON. It runs as follows...