Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is much interest here at present in the question of peace and war. We suggest that the opposing sides hear what President Eliot has to say this evening. A lecture by President Eliot at any rate is an event which comes infrequently and an opportunity not to be lost...
...directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...
...present number of the Musical Review measured up to these rich and unique possibilities? Not badly, at any rate. Dr. Davison's discussion of the methods of music teaching in the Boston public schools is timely in view of the avowed purpose of the board of education to go over this department of its work with a fine toothed comb. It reveals convincingly what most of us, in our grade school days, have suffered in the name of art. A constructive article on the same subject, written by some one who was both a psychologist and a musician, might have...
...summer by the International Solar Union at Bonne to be the authentic system. In this work, a large number of new stars, variables and other peculiar objects have been discovered. A catalogue classification of 200,000 stars is now being prepared at the Observatory by Miss Cannon at the rate of 5,000 a month. This will fill eight volumes of the annals...
...Physical Colloquium. Address on "A New Form of Rate-Flow Meter," by Dr. H. C. Hayes, in Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...