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...plaster model for the statue of President Woolsey has been completed and goes to the foundry this week. Professor Weir is designer. The statue will be set up on the campus, probably in May. Graduates have given the statue, especially those who were here in President Woolsey's time, and the '96 Prom. committee assisted in raising funds...
...managing committee of the American School at Athens announce that at their last meeting Dr. Charles Waldstein of King's College, Cambridge, was re-elected professor of the history of art for the year 1896-97, and Professor Herbert Weir Smyth of Bryn Mawr College was invited to serve as professor of the Greek language and literature for the same year. Professor Abraham Lincoln Fuller of Western Reserve University was elected to the latter chair for the year...
...were stationed in the engine room, where every part of the engine and boilers was thoroughly tested. Readings were taken from all the gauges every fifteen minutes, indicator cards being taken at the same time from all the cylinders, both water and steam. Students were also stationed at the weir house on Fisher Hill, and at the piezometer houses between the two reservoirs, where the pressure of the water flowing in the pipes was measured. The pump apparently worked perfectly, and the test will be one of great value. The test was under the auspices of Professor Miller...
...Conn., Feb. 7. - The committee in charge of the George William Curtis memorial fund have decided to establish a revolving lectureship, the incumbent of which shall deliver lectures in Yale, Harvard, Columbia and perhaps Amherst and Brown Colleges. The following Yale professors have charge of the fund at Yale. Weir, Bishop and Henry Farnam. The holder of the lectureship will select for his theme a civic subject, similar in scope to the questions to which Mr. Curtis devoted his life work...
...experimenting with the flow of water through apertures of different sizes. Water will be pumped into the pipe from a cistern and will flow through an aperture, provided with nozzels of various sizes, into a tank. At the other end of the tank there will be a weir, and the flow of water over this can be measured. Then the water will flow into weighing tanks and back into the cistern. The large tank and the two weighing tanks have not yet been put in. The hydraulic machinery will be ready for use early in the coming term...