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...Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams College and Chairman of the Institute of Politics (TIME, May 5), stated that no such course would be complete unless it included travel abroad and first-hand touch with other nations...
...world has waited long for a first-hand account of the life and work of Pierre Curie and his distinguished collaborator and widow, Marie Sklodowska Curie. Fortunately this greatest and most modest of living women has at last been prevailed upon to set down, not only a narrative of her husband's life?, but extensive autobiographical notes, without which the story would be a truncated cone. It contains a chapter on her American visit of 1921, and an illuminating introduction by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, former editor of The Delineator, who conceived and engineered Mme. Curie's trip...
...Harvard. The first laboratory was on Penikese Island in Buzzards Bay, which was given for the purpose by the philanthropist, John Anderson, with an endowment of $50,000. Later it re- moved to the village of Woods Hole on the mainland. This was the first biological institution established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that of Prof. Yves Delage, in France. Dr. Agassiz's program was revolutionary, one of his rules being the complete prohibition of textbooks in favor of first-hand contact with living material...
Vigoroux, however, is not the only muckraker, and some French critics have lent color to his charges. The Metropolitan authorities are still standing pat. Edward Robinson, director, is abroad, presumably to make a first-hand investigation. Mr. Breck and other Museum employees refuse to talk. And Robert W. DeForrest, President of the trustees, while not claiming infallibility for the Museum's treasures, has confidence in the judgment of the purchasing committee, composed of experts and collectors who scrutinize every object the Museum buys...
...London, Durham, Belfast. That he has not made public his discovery is because he desired to treat many more patients before submitting it to the medical and surgical professions. Dr. Bell's professional standing is in itself strong presumptive evidence of the importance of his treatment, and first-hand details will be eagerly awaited...