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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Birtwell as lecturer on scientific methods in Philanthrophy will meet with the hearty approval of the students. Mr. Birtwell has been director of the Volunteer Work movement since it started, and has rendered in this direction efficient service. He has had a long experience in philanthropic work of various kinds, and is, therefore, well qualifed to lecture upon the subject...
...means either the system of national bimetallism with free coinage of both metals at the legal ratio; or else, and this more properly, the system of international bimetallism, with a free coinage of the metals at a ratio common to the contracting nations. The term would also embrace the various monetary systems proposed by Professor Alfred Marshall of Cambridge University, Sir James Stewart, and Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes. In a wider sense still, bimetallism might embrace the considertion of everything which relates to the cost and conditions of production of gold and silver; to their consumption...
Professor A. W. Wright and Mr. H. A. Bumstead have made applications of the principles of solid-photography, recently discovered by Professor Rontgen, of Wurgburgh, with decided success. Experiments with cathode rays have been made upon various small animals and different opaque substances, and very definite negatives have been obtained. These investigations will be continued...
...terms Dr. Hodges was an Overseer of the University. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of various other medical and social organizations. To medical literature he contributed two volumes, entitled, "Practical Dissections" and "The Excision of Joints," and many articles in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal...
...movement which puts the special advantages of the various departments of the University at the service of the Graduate School, for purposes of advanced study or research, necessarily widens the scope of the School's usefulness. It is quite conceivable that study in some of the professional schools may be carried on in purely scientific lines without reference to any practical application, professionally, in after life. Now the purpose of the Graduate School being to offer opportunities for advanced work and to give credit for such work without any limitation of its field other than the actual number of fields...