Word: experimental
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...University of Paris as Exchange Professor. It was there in France that he performed services for the Allies in connection with the War which were of incalculable value. An expert on sound, he was asked by the French Government to experiment with sounding devices. In this connection, he made experimental flights in aeroplanes and went below the sea on a French submarine. He also invented a most successful sounding device for locating artillery, which has been used to a large extent by the Allied Armies with excellent results...
The University mourns the death of Herbert Frederick Engelbrecht, from poison gas, at the American University Experiment Station in Washington, D. C., December 3. Engelbrecht was Austin Teaching Fellow in Chemistry, and a third-year graduate student last year. As an instructor in organic chemistry he showed great promise. He...
My thought is neither more nor less than a call to take a sensible middle course. Spiritual development of personality must depend on material opportunities; and therefore we should recognize, as a sine qua non for a progressive human being, a frank striving for money--and the time and things...
Four more members of the Faculty have been granted leave of absence for war work by the University Corporation at its meeting this week. Dr. Elmer Peter Kohler, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, who left for Washington for war research work on the first of this month, has...
President Eliot will be the chief speaker at the special meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, to be held at Boston University today at 10.30 o'clock. He is to deliver an address on "The Modern School," the subject having particular reference to the general...