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...those "movers and shakers" of whom O'Shaughnessy sings. Since the publication of his recent article in the Advocate, there has been a flood of discussion and criticism which has served the useful purpose of bringing some very vital questions into the public eye. Mr. Wesson is the latest to enter the controversial lists with a short essay in the current Gad-Fly, aiming to show that there are four distinct groups at Harvard and not two as Mr. Lamont argued...
Which is faster?the steam or electric locomotive? On the face of the latest returns, the "juice" seems to have it. At Erie, Pa., last week a speed of 105 miles an hour was attained over a short test track by a locomotive built by the General Electric Co. and the American Locomotive Works for the Paris-Orleans Railroad, France. This is the greatest speed ever attained by an electric locomotive, and could just as well have been 125 miles an hour, said officials, if the track had been longer. Steam locomotives have several times attained speeds of from...
Poor old steam power, staggering under the body blows of electricity, has now to face another enemy. A mercury boiler 50% more efficient than the best steam turbine, and considered by engineers the "greatest advance in power production in many years," is the latest achievement of the General Electric Co. W. LeR. Emmet, consulting engineer of the Company, is the man behind the boiler. Time will be required to develop and perfect the system, but two of the boilers already exist, one in the laboratories at the Schenectady works, the other in actual and successful operation at a generating station...
...American Federation of Labor has always played the part of the flirtations coquetio without any permanent bestowal of its affections, and this latest pronouncement may be taken as the expression of a pious wish rather than an active program of political agitation. It is interesting, nevertheless, to see that Labor, if its Secretary is to be regarded as representative, would welcome the success of a Farmer-Labor party. But it all depends on somebody else doing the dirty work...
That neither of these faults can be attributed to those who sponsor the tutorial system at Harvard has been amply proved by their attitude of intelligent progress and experimentation in the past. And if this their latest experiment of comparison is given a fair trial and due consideration, they may achieve their desire. A proper fusion of the Oxonion tutorial system with the still youthful Harvard tutorial system, may in the not-too-distant future produce a wholly desirable system--to be called, perhaps, the Superlatively Successful; to be welcomed, perhaps, by all departments that aim at education...