Word: pastes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for a student in chemistry to graduate with a knowledge altogether too small of the interpretation of the past by history and literature and of the present by science as a whole. The correlation of the manifold branches of chemical science, the broad study of the explanation and improvement of the earth and its inhabitants on the basis of physics and chemistry is ample justification for the establishment of a tutorial system in the Department...
Another Thanksgiving having become part of an undigested past, everybody settles down to wait for Christmas vacation. The significance of the day has unfortunately been rather widely dissipated in gourmandizing and various other pleasant pursuits. Turkey has assumed the role of the main feature of the day with numerous other foods coming close behind...
...that the first nine citizens who succeed in registering at a voting booth are thereby constituted the election board for the day. By noon hundreds of Mexican voting booths were wrecked, most of the others triumphantly occupied by Ortiz Rubistas. In Mexico City an automobileful of machine gunners swept past a mass meeting of disconsolate Vasconcelistas, killed four, wounded eight. In Vera Cruz, Vasconcelistas took their revenge by lynching a man by the name of Lopez...
Replied President Hutchins: "No man can come to the presidency of the University of Chicago without being awed by the University and its past. . . . We are studying and propose to study problems that do not fit readily into the traditional departmental pattern of a university. . . . What is clear is that we must proceed to give opportunities for cooperation to those who have felt the need of them. We must regard the University as a whole. . . . Comparisons of salaries among universities are irrelevant and harmful. For the question is: can we now get the kind of men we want...
Within the past year or two at the Harvard Observatory Professor Shapley has developed and published detailed classifications of galactic star clusters, of globular star clusters, and of external galaxies. In this series of lectures new classifications will be proposed for star clouds super-galaxies, multiple stars, planetary structures, systems of satellites, and meteoritic associations...