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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage conditions are among the most unusual features of the tribal life. All a man has to do to obtain a wife is to present her parents with enough goats. The number of his wives is limited only by his wealth; most of the negroes have three or four, while the richest may have as many as 500. On the other hand, divorce is just as easy as marriage; if the woman is dissatisfied, she simply leaves her husband and returns home without ceremony, if she gives her former mate the sum paid...
...Dodge, Curator of the Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of the University, has been delegated to obtain additional material for a volume on the lichen flora of Costa Rica and to study type material of lichens in several European herbaria. Dr. Dodge is chairman of the committee on the New England Flora of the Boston Mycological Club, and has published many papers on the subject of lichens...
...work of Professor W. J. Luyten in astronomy is also recognized. He is selected to continue the taking of photographs of the southern sky with the Bruce telescope of the Harvard University Observatory at Mazelspoort, South Africa. His plates will be compared with similar ones taken about 1900 to obtain information concerning the numbers, velocities, and intrinsic brightnesses of the stars in the neighborhood...
...first place, we let it be known that in Germany a book of diagrams was being published which, if obtained, would prove of great value to the student both in making his work in sociology considerably clearer and in enabling him to get very much better marks in his examinations. One could obtain this book, we said, only through our department, by sending us a certain sum of money...
...Paris, a promise that his bust will be placed in the tower of Potsdam, an announcement by U.S. Zionists that land will be acquired near Jerusalem for the planting of a wood to be called Einstein Forest. Newsgatherers cornered Frau Einstein in the elevator of her home but could obtain little "color" for their stories. "Why? If you would only tell us why!" pleaded Frau Einstein. Lacking other Einstein comment, Berlin newspapers republished his one "joke" about relativity, viz.: "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute, but when...