Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover signed bills to: Appropriate $340,815.08 for the expenses of the special session of Congress; make available $4,250,000 to combat fruit flies in Florida...
...Alto or on S Street knows Mrs. Hoover's fondness for verandas and terraces. Back of the White House, not far from her husband's medicine-ball-ground, Mrs. Hoover has had laid out a flagstoned retreat among the trees, with rustic chairs against a shrubbery background. Nearby a special flowerbed has been turned, prepared and planted. Mrs. Hoover supervises the gardener but seldom trowels herself...
Fourteen prizes in as many events have been put up by various Harvard alumni, the discus throw being the only event on the program for which there is no special award for the victor. Each year the name of the victor is inscribed upon the cup for his event, and this year as a new departure, the winner will also receive a picture of the cup. Medals are awarded for second and third places in each event...
...Department of Physics is conducting at the present time several researches of great importance. Professor William Duane '93 is studying X-rays and radio-active substances, with special reference to their treatment of malignant disease. Professor P. W. Bridgman '04 is carrying on an investigation of compressibilities and thermal conductivities which are of considerable use to the geologist Professor F. I. Chaffee 11 has been measuring for several years the electrical response of the retina to light stimulation, a subject which has an important relation to our knowledge of the mechanism of visitor...
Four fellowships in fine arts enabling he holders of them to travel were also awarded. Professor Muneyoshi Yanagi of Kyoto. Japan, will come to Harvard to carry on special researches at Harvard. The Sachs Research Fellowship in Fine Arts has been awarded to Miss Eleanor Patterson Spencer, a graduate of Smith College, while two Shady Hill Research Fellowships in Fine Arts were awarded to Miss. Anne Fitzgerald, A.M. Radcliffe '28 and to Chandler Rathfon Post '04, Professor of Greek and Fine Arts since...