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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Surgical Unit. The Corporation has granted permission for this collection to be taken up by the ushers. All of the instruments and equipment used by the unit, surgical dressings, much of the bacteriological and anaesthetic apparatus and some of the buildings have already been paid for by a comparatively small number of University men. The very heavy expenses of conducting so large an operation for the balance of the war will need continuous and generous financial support, and for this purpose the collection at the game has been proposed...
Nelson Marns, a man of unimpeachable probity and ruined finances, is endeavoring to construct a canal through a small town in New York. He has secured the option on the land desired from the land owners, who are poor farmers. He is continually blocked in his efforts to get the charter granted by the local coal trust and several other powerful corporations, whose interests would be jeopardized by the building of the canal. Marns, his ward, Faith Stuart and several others who have the interest of the community at heart, are struggling to secure the granting of the charter...
...reached Gebel Barkal from Cairo on January 24 fast," says Dr. Reisner in his report. "We worked there three months, employing a force of about 300 local workmen, and left just in time to escape the hot weather. Fortunately at Gebel Barkal there were two completely ruined pyramids of small size. We found in the case of each a stairway on the eastern side leading down to the chambers under the pyramid. With this hint we attacked the larger pyramids, and within a month we had found the entrances of 25 pyramids and had cleared the burial chambers...
...mistake Harvard University made is offering a prize of $200 for the best paper on plumbing was in making the amount too small. Any young man who knew enough about plumbing to write a paper on the subject could go out on a repair job and make more than that in half an hour.--Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. --Boston Globe...
Professor W. E. Byerly's "Calculus of Variations" is the first of a proposed series of small volumes dealing with mathematical subjects of special interest to physicists. "Genetics and Eugenics," by Professor W. E. Castle '93, is a textbook for students of biology and a work of reference for animal and plant breeders. "The Order of Nature" is a thesis by L. J. Henderson '98, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry in the University, which seeks to reconcile scientific conclusion with the results of philosophic thought. A. B. Lamb, Ph.D. '03, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Director of the University Chemical...