Word: plata
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Friday evening at 8 o'clock in Pierce Hall, Professor Mercante, former dean of the Faculty of Sciences of Education at the University of La Plata in Argentina, will deliver an address, illustrated with motion pictures, on the "Relation between Physical Growth and Intellectual Development...
...lecture will be in English and will cover an investigation based on about three thousand observations at the Pedagogical Laboratory of the University of La Plata...
From 1906 to 1920, Professor Mercante was the editor of the Archives de Pedagogia, published by the University of La Plata. He is the author of several important books in Spanish on education, among them the following: "Psychology of the Mathematical Aptitude of Children", "Special Pedagogical Method". "The Crisis of Puberty", "Teachers and Educators", "School Museums", "Reaction Time in Tactile and Auditive Sensations", "Verbochromy" (dealing with the phenomena of the mental association of color and words). "Psycho-physiological Analysis of the Orthographic Aptitude", "Tut-Ank-Amen and the Oriental Civilizations". Professor Mercante has also composed a symbolic opera. "Frenos", which...
...Argentine's best dancers likewise performed. Mr. Hoover applauded vigorously, stayed late. Early Sunday morning President Irigoyen was at the red-carpeted pier to see his new friends off on the Argentine cruiser Buenos Aires. "Adios" he cried. "Buen Viaje!" A nine-hour run down the river Plata took them to Montevideo, Uruguay harbor-capital. There lay the U.S.S. Utah ready to carry Goodwill to Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba and home. But not before the Hoovers should have slept a night in Uruguay and dined with President Juan Campisteguy...
...Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed another star by its side, some astronomers proclaimed that the star had split in two. English and American...