Word: currents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Prepared--for What?" Of Mr. E. A. LeRoy, Jr. If he is somewhat given to accepting as fact all that he reads in the newspapers, he at least reads them; and the seriousness of his attempt to arrive at sane conclusions is a welcome reassurance in the face of current talk as to the lack of intelligent interest in the war on the part of undergraduates. Mr. Burman's "Nail in the Shoe" is the best of the stories, but the reviewer is sentimental enough to wish that the cynical conclusion had not been added. Mr. Babcock's "Willie...
...repair and it is here that the special apparatus for investigation is constructed. The northeastern part of the basement contains the excellent new mounting for the twenty-one foot concave grating, together with other apparatus necessary for the study of problems in spectrum analysis and magneto optics. The electric current used in this work is furnished by a storage battery recently established in the old engine house at the eastern end of the main building. The whole equipment is as good as any in this country. It is at present employed in a study of the relation of the Zeeman...
...board of the Advocate offers a variety of attractions for its readers in the current issue, although the art of writing editorials has yet to be acquired with further experience of the joys of editorship. The first one is righteously indignant with the Boston American's attack on President Lowell, but its grammar is defective, and it fails to accomplish its object, for like the paper mentioned it "does not argue, it states." Again, sententia, if the editors really insist on using a Latin word where an English one does better, is a word of the first deciension (sententia...
...current issue of the Harvard Illustrated, which has waited until a few days before March before distributing its February edition, contains articles and photographs covering a wide field of subjects. The contents are rich in variety but in many places poor in literary workmanship...
...been maintained. Recently, however, the paper has undergone a thorough reorganization. The new plan to incoporate the magazine is almost certain to place it on a sound working foundation, and the appearance of two issues a month, beginning in May, will pave the way for publishing events of greater current interest. The usefulness and influence of the Illustrated ought to be considerably increased...