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...supply the market, our few hardy perennials in the way of tutoring schools, have been reenforced by a host of smaller "bureaus" which have sprung into being, mushroom--like. Nor is it difficult to find the, life-giving force which has coaxed these seedlings through the hard intellectual crust of Cambridge--never before have the rates for tutoring been so high: Our mathematical economists have not been slow to figure out a close relation between the high tariff on "repeated" courses recently enacted at the Bursar's Office and this tremendous increase in the educational transportation charges between Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PLAGUE | 1/30/1922 | See Source »

Baron De Geer is world famous as the first to devise a method for measuring in years the length of the latest geological period, which hitherto could be judged but relatively. He is also well-known for his map of the formation of the earth's crust and for his studies of the characteristics and movements of the ancient glaciers of North-western Europe. The former is still useful today and was the best map for many years after its publication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAMOUS GEOLOGIST HERE TONIGHT | 11/29/1920 | See Source »

Blackberry pie requires for its making blackberries, sugar, a little flour; and pie crust with shortening in it as well as flour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Wilful Waste Makes Woeful Laughter. | 12/11/1917 | See Source »

Custard pie takes eggs, milk and sugar as well as pie crust, containing flour and shortening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Wilful Waste Makes Woeful Laughter. | 12/11/1917 | See Source »

Professor Woodworth has been in charge of the University seismographic station since 1908. The seismographic is used to detect movements in the earth's crust, and in war to detect the location of hostile batteries, for gun-fire affects the landscape much like an earthquake. The tremors of the crust due to gun-fire can be recorded by this instrument...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL HEAD WAR COMMITTEE | 4/13/1917 | See Source »

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