Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Wilbur: "The order to Admiral Magruder is not punitive; it is administrative. ... I will say, however, that I do not feel that the Secretary of the Navy should be compelled or expected to get information from naval officers concerning plans for the Navy organization by obtaining newspapers or magazines in which such information is published...
...Admiral Magruder wrote to President Coolidge asking that Secretary Wilbur's order be overruled, that the President receive Admiral Magruder to hear his explanations...
...special study of the corona of total solar eclipses is being made at the Astronomical Laboratory by Assistant Professor H. T. Stetson, who has made trips to Sumatra, Norway and remote, portions of the world where total eclipses have occurred in recent years, in order to gather data. The photographic plates made in Sumatra in 1926, and in Norway last year, are being analyzed in an electrical apparatus developed for the purpose by Professor Stetson...
During the last three years there have been an unusually large number of disturbances in the sun, and the corona has manifested corresponding variations. In order to get a series of observations of consecutive eclipses from which comparisons could be made, Professor Stetson has twice travelled nearly around the world, and one trip of 27,000 miles was made to take observations of an eclipse which lasted only 30 seconds...
There are certain things which it is necessary to possess in order to gain culture, which is the end of education, and these are a foundation of facts. It is these which the lectures are designed primarily to supply. All the personal contacts with one's tutor, the polishing off of the little niceties of knowledge are the whipped cream, the icing of the cake. The nourishment must come elsewhere, and that the tutorial system can supply it as well as the lectures seems to the Vagabond very doubtful. When a balance between the two is reached--sometime--when...