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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bailey is the man responsible for the founding of the "Harvard" station at Arequipa, Peru, which has been maintained since 1892. He was originally sent down in 1889 and travelled up and down the west coast of Africa in order to determine the best location for this southern station of the University Observatory. Since its foundation at Arequipa, Professor Bailey has been in complete charge of the work there. In 1893 he established a meteorological station on the summit of the famous Andes peak, El Misti, which rears its head 19,000 feet above sea level. In this little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE ASTRONOMER PARTING TRIBUTE | 2/4/1925 | See Source »

...Lect. Hall Dr. Howe, 4 Harvard 3 Mr. Jentsch, 1, 6, 22 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Koelz, 13 Emerson A Mr. Koelz, 20 Emerson F Mr. Pfund, 11, 26 Emerson D Dr. Silz, 10, 21, 27 New Lect. Hall Dr. Stevens, 9, 14 Harvard 6 Mr. West, 5, 17 New Lect. Hall Physics 17 hf. Sever 5 Social Ethics 3 Emerson J 2 P. M. French A Emerson D Latin 3 hf. Emerson D Philosophy 12c Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MID-YEAR EXAMINATIONS FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW | 2/4/1925 | See Source »

...area which was to be devoted exclusively to Harvard needs is to be invaded by a commercial and family hotel. That this hotel will be a profitable venture is quite certain, for it will be the only hotel in the neighborhood and on a much traveled highway to the west and north. Perhaps the authorities felt that they could not compete with hotel developers for the purchase of the site. But if they look into the future, they must see their plans for expansion disrupted, and the future of the university distorted by a non-college building in its very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACTION! | 2/3/1925 | See Source »

...work to be done in Western state universities, and its paramount importance for the country. I recognize also that there could be no better place to do that work than at the University of Wisconsin. I believe there is a real call for a vigorous man who understands the West and its institutions, to devote his best energies to such on institution as the University of Wisconsin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POUND DECIDES TO STAY AT HARVARD | 2/3/1925 | See Source »

...administration of justice. That work is at least scarcely less important than the work which is to be done as President at Wisconsin. Moreover, it is a work that I have come to understand. I do not feel justified, on mere grounds of personal inclination toward life in the West and in a Western academic community, in deserting something that I had definitely taken up as my life task...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POUND DECIDES TO STAY AT HARVARD | 2/3/1925 | See Source »

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