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...Freshman Prize Scholarships, which range from $100 to $500 according to the financial needs of the student. These prizes are given on the recommendation of the headmaster of the preparatory school confirmed by the Committee on Scholarships. The scholarships are awarded on a standard of thoroughness in preparation and exist for a number of schools each sending several graduates to the University...
...five ounces. This is certainly a bad mistake since the price of gold is $20.67-plus per troy ounce and this of course is for pure gold. The settling price for gold by smelters is frequently considerably less due to the fact that pure gold does not exist in nature...
...salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that exist or other such important philosophical problems. These discussions are usually worried along by laymen whose only qualification lies in a facile verbosity. This is not entirely the section man's fault for Philosophy A offers a moderately lucrative training ground while he is studying for a Ph.D., his primary object...
Other radium deposits exist in Czechoslovakia, Belgian Congo, Portugal, Australia, Colorado, Utah. The deposits in Czechoslovakia are almost depleted. Since the discovery of the rich Belgian Congo deposits in 1922, the U. S. production has almost ceased. Up to 1929, because of the great labor and expense involved, only 300 grams of radium had been produced, an insufficient supply for medical men and watchmakers...
...found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher, and a pygmy owl. The four towering volcanoes which surround the lake are thought to have prevented the birds from migrating...