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Among the tangible results of the Schwab expedition are eighteen cases of ethnological specimens, about 500 negatives depicting various phases of native life, and 440 complete anthropometric records pertaining to the natives of ten different tribes. The monograph, which will be published after analysis of the field work, will, of course, be the most valuable contribution of the expedition to science...
...What May the Senior High Schools Demand of the Junior High Schools." He will also address the National Association of High School Supervisors and Inspectors on the subject, "Should Rural Communities Attempt to Establish Junior High Schools." Professor Spaulding, who is well known in educational work, recently published a monograph on the small junior high school...
...strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself the author of great advances in electrical communication, Dr. Pupin predicted the ultimate translation of cosmic messages from...
...Sullivan's offerings discuss everything from pants buttons to prohibition. He writes Nat Luxenberg and Bros, deeply offended because they failed to invite him to their sale. He contributes a scholarly monograph on the mashing situation in New York. He writes thrillingly of "The Unique Hold-Up of a Taximan's Pants." And never for a moment is he serious, even inadvertently. He sometimes fails also to be funny, but not for lack of trying. It is that straining for effect that is Mr. Sullivan's chief fault. We are led to feel that the author is trying very, very...
PROHIBITION AT ITS WORST- Irving Fisher-Macmillan ($1.75). With the zeal of a trumpeting reformer and the statistical finality of an economics professor, Irving Fisher of Yale has produced a monograph to show that Prohibition at its worst is good. There is everything in the book from little sermons on the evils of alcohol to a concise history of Prohibition in the U. S. Professor Fisher is a veritable Gene Tunney to the wet. First, he twists the ear of the doubting reader with such statements as "The use of liquor is no more natural than the use of opium...