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Professor Pierce holds the chair of Rumford Professor of Physics and is the Director of the Cruft High Tension and Radio Laboratory. He is recognized as a leading authority on electrical oscillations and electric waves, and has contributed much to the practical application of this field of science...
Professor G. W. Pierce '99, Rumford Professor of Physics, and director of the Cruft memorial laboratory, will be the speaker at a Physical Colloquium, this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Room 3 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The subject of his lecture will be "The Velocity of Sound in Water". In addition to this, he will give a demonstration of Radiotelephonic Reception...
...easy to spend an afternoon in the Fogg Museum and become acquainted with a number of masterpieces, for instance, the prints by Durer, Holbein, or Rembrandt. The work of Gainsborough who painted the now famous "Blue Boy" can be seen in his protrait of Count Rumford, recently bequeathed to the University. Anyone who wishes to know the works of art of some of these great men can do so in a much shorter time than it is possible to become acquainted with an equal number of the masterpieces of literature or music...
...more beloved as the knowledge of art and taste progresses in the modern world. There are also works by later masters easier to understand, as the fine portrait by Van Dyck, the St. Jerome of Ribera, the so-called Rembrandt's Daughter by Turner, and the portrait of Count Rumford by Gainsborough. For those who are still more modern in their tastes there are oil and water colors by Winslow, Homer, Whistler, LaFarge, Dodge Macknight, and others...
...portrait by Gainsborough shows Count Rumford in the uniform of the King's American Dragoons. The portrait was published by Mr. Maurice W. Brockwell in Art in America for December, 1917. Mr. Brockwell says: "The internal evidence of the painting shows it to be a late work by Gainsborough, and one of the great English artist's finest achievements in male portraiture. Although neither signed nor dated it a absolutely autograph. The technical characteristics of the picture, the appearance of this famous investigator of light and heat, and the biographical data which we possess of him show that...