Word: spent
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Professor L. S. Marks, of the Division of engineering, has recently returned from Europe, where he has spent the past year in investigation concerning the internal combustion motor or gas engine in Germany, France, and England. He has also studied the questions of laboratory equipment and the methods of instruction in the leading technical high schools of these same countries...
...largest part of his time was spent in Germany in visiting the important industrial plants there, among others the Krupp works at Essen which make use of gas engines of the largest size in the manufacture of pig iron and steel. He found that the development of the gas engine had proceeded farther in this country than in any other. Professor Marks made a careful study of the equipment and systems of instruction at the technical high school of Charlottenberg, Germany. This school, which is a part of the University of Berlin, is the largest and best equipped in existence...
These islands, among which Professor Jaggar and his associates have spent the summer, from part of a submerged mountain chain from Alaska to Kamchatka, and glacial action has so deepended the valleys that the result is called a sea of mountains. Owing to the prevalence of gales and the danger of the coasts, ships have rarely visited the archipelago. The islands are destitute of trees, but are covered with a thick growth of herbage. The climate is foggy but free from extremes...
...secondly the responsibility that he owes in cherishing the fair fame of his university, thirdly the duty he owes himself in fitting himself to be a helpful and loyal citizen, and fourthly the duty that each one owes to an Almighty Power above. College days are happy, but if spent wisely are simply a foundation for still happier ones...
Professor E. C. Moore returned last week from an extensive trip to China where he has been investigating the missions and schools of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He left Cambridge last January and proceeded by way of the Suez Canal to India, where he spent four weeks. Here he visited Agra, Delhi, and Benares, as well as the principal cities of the coast. At Calcutta Professor Moore had an opportunity to observe the work of E. C. Carter '00, who is at the head of the Harvard Mission in India and who is travelling secretary...