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With such a set-up, small wonder that Harvard lays claim to being one of the cultural centers of the nation. As a reservoir of abstract learning, with libraries, laboratories and learned men, she holds a definite trust, both in perpetuating past scholarship and in stimulating the arts and sciences for present day benefits to humanity. A glance at Harvard's contributions to industrial life, for instance, bears striking witness to the value of scientific investigation to the national economy. And most important of all are the men, schooled in the healthy student life or trained professionally in graduate work...
...Brown, briefly took over the sickly State University at Burlington. James Rowland Angell does not like to have it forgotten that he is descended from nine generations of Rhode Islanders and he en joys recalling that since the old Angell farm lies at the bottom of Providence's reservoir, the citizens to this day drink water filtered through his ancestors' bones. But the Harvard Alumni Review made no mistake in its simile. Like a breeze, Angell had in his 53 years moved freely far & wide. His horizon had always been broader than the campus at Burlington, Ann Arbor...
...places the water was 150 ft. deep. A 6-knot current slashed through the channels. It was forseen that for ten hours a day. between tides, turbines could not turn, but while they were operating it was planned to use their power to pump seawater to an upland reservoir, whence it could return creating auxiliary power during Quoddy's idle hours...
...Maine as a whole was apathetic to President Roosevelt's expenditure of relief millions within its borders. The Maine legislature had failed to set up a Quoddy Power Authority, which was part of the agreement with the Federal Government. The ground for the upland reservoir proved to be so sandy that it would not hold water, and plans had to be made for a steam plant to operate during Quoddy's ten idle hours. Critics contended that for $16,000,000 a steam-generating plant could be built which would produce just as much electricity as the whole...
...rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir under most of the State. By drilling wells to the limestone, water can be tapped and in many places brought to the surface like a stream from a firehose. So much water flows through the limestone that, for example, Silver Springs, close to Ocala, pours...