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Professor A. E. Kennelly of the Harvard Engineering School has been recommended by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institution of Electrical Engineers for the Kelvin Medal, it was announced on Saturday. His nomination by these organizations establishes him as one of several candidates from various nations...
Great pleasure it doubtless was for Henry H. Timken of Canton, Ohio (with money) and Dr. Orval James Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo. (with theory), who have built at Cleveland a great spherical tank to treat various diseases by means of compressed gases (TIME, June 4, 1927), to learn last week that the Harvard Medical School will experiment on the same lines. Harvard is installing a steel pressure cylinder 35 ft. long, 8 ft. in diameter, in which investigators can change air pressure from 60 Ibs. per sq. in. to the legerity at the top of Mt. Everest...
...meeting itself, its outstanding result was an agreement to restrict 1929 oil production in North and South America to approximate its 1928 output of 1,075,369,847 barrels. Output of various companies will be pro-rated by five regional committees; restriction is apparently on a voluntary "gentlemen's agreement" basis. Had the U. S. oilmen been European oilmen, they might have drawn up a very solemn legal compact involving fines for overproduction and compensation for underproduction. But despite the fact that President Coolidge in 1924 appointed a Federal Oil Conservation Board which consistently recommended co-operation within...
There are various ways of teaching "good citizenship"-presumably a major aim of education. In Scarsdale, N. Y., the schoolchildren who trip matutinally to the two elementary schools or the six-year High School are taught in terms of business. Teacher gives them a lesson which is considered a "contract." By learning their lessons, the children fulfill their contracts, achieve a sense of responsibility, advance toward their looming citizenship with proper civic consciousness. In the Montezuma Mountain School for Boys, Los Gatos, Calif., children actually live like citizens. After a two-week campaign, the upper students elect a mayor...
...therefore the goodwill of the public. Now Harvard gets at least her fair share of public goodwill as far as her athletics are concerned, and since even Harvard alumni read the papers, this very important body is well disposed towards its Alma Mater, willing to kick in when the various appeals are made from Lehman Hall...