Word: director
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Student Volunteer Committee is now entering upon its fourth year of activity. During the past year the Committee has developed its work on the same lines as in previous years. Fifty-nine men desious of undertaking charitable work have come to Mr. Birtwell, of the class of '85, the director of the Committee, at his weekly conferences in Grays 17, and under his guidance have taken up the work best suited to their needs and future careers. The men have undertaken service for the Associated Charities of Boston, the Home Libraries of the Boston Children's Aid Society, the Society...
...December and June clothing collections yielded a total of fifteen hundred articles which were placed for careful distribution in the hands of well administered charities in Cambridge and Boston, chosen by the director...
...past two years, Professor Trowbridge, director of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, has been perfecting a battery for electrical discharges. It is now the most powerful apparatus of its kind in the world, and has already been used in several investigations of the x-ray. It is the only battery strong enough to send a discharge through an x-ray tube; all other batteries send the spark around the tube. It has been used repeatedly to show the skeleton of the hand. An idea of its power can be had from the fact that it has a voltage...
...Hans Reusch, Director of the Geological Survey of Norway, who is to be Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology for '97-'98, will give the following courses in each of which the third hour will be given to seminary work, including reports and discussions upon geological literature...
...steel grand stand lately erected on Holmes Field. This mass of magnetic material has caused variable disturbances in the magnetometer records of the "horizontal intensity" component of the earth's magnetism. Although this has in some ways greatly inconvenienced the original investigations which are constantly being made by the director and his staff, this difficulty will be obviated next year by the removal of the grand stands to Soldiers Field...