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...President of the University of Grenoble, will serve as the Exchange Professor from France for the first half year. He was Exchange Professor from France in 1921 when Dean of the University of Toulouse, and recently published the concluding volume of his work on French poetry of the sixteenth century...
...would memorize hymns and Scripture passages, play clerk to the trustees, mingle with solid people, spend little. A sanctimonious social life satisfied him, but high school did not. Though nattered by his academic nickname, "The Deacon," he was lured early by Business. Leaving school two months after his sixteenth birthday in 1855, he soon became office-boy in a warehouse on a day since reverenced by the Rockefeller clan. Never the mythical, poverty-stricken Rockefeller boy, he became at 17 a trustee of the Erie Street Baptist. He was junior partner and bookkeeper of the young but prosperous firm...
Once before, in 1926, Professor Keesom produced solid helium. But the quantity was only one cubic centimeter, i. e., one-sixteenth cubic inch or one-fourth of a teaspoonful. That quantity lasted for only a moment, changing into liquid helium, a colorless, mobile liquid, which Professor Keesom's predecessor at the Leyden cryogenic laboratory, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), had obtained...
...them by secretaries who are not writers. This handicap, coupled with the further hazard that convention speeches are generally highly conventional, tends to throw the value of a convention upon the personal contacts established rather than upon the official business transacted. Thus it is somewhat questionable whether the Sixteenth National Foreign Trade Convention at Baltimore last week made any epochal advances in the solution of problems of foreign trade. Still many an Exporter met many an Importer; many sound, if not startling, pronouncements were made concerning international commerce; and everybody appeared to be agreed upon the fact that foreign trade...
...American collection owned by the Fogg Museum has been reinstalled in Gallery XVI. In the Great Hall there appear three sixteenth century Flemish tapestries representing the "Glory of the Virgin" which have been lent to the Museum by Mr. Felix Warburg of New York City, and a fourth tapestry which is believed to be from the same series but which has been lent anonymously...