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General Electric Company Announces
Coffin Fellowship Plans for Students
The Charles A. Coffin Foundation,
established some years ago by the
General Electric Company, has an
nounced that applications are now
being made for the Charles A. Cof
fin Fellowships for 1930-31.
The terms of the Charles A. Cof
fin Foundation made provision for
the award of five thousand dollars
annually for fellowships to graduates
of the universities, colleges, and tech
nical schools throughout the United
States, who have shown, by the
character of their work, that they
could, with advantage, undertake or
continue research work in education
al institutions either in this country
or abroad.
The fields in which these fellow
ships are to be awarded are ELEC
TRICITY, PHYSICS and PHYSI
CAL CHEMISTRY.
The committee, composed of Mr.
Gano Dunn, representing the Na
tional Academy of Sciences, Mr. R.
I. Rees, representing the Society for
Promotion of Engineering Education,
and Mr. Harold B. Smith, represent
ing the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers, desires to make the
awards to men who, without finan
cial assistance, would be unable to
devote themselves to research work.
The fellowships will carry a mini
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mum allowance of five hundred dol
lars. This allowance may be increas
ed to meet the special needs of ap
plicants to whom the Committee de
cides to award the Fellowships.
Candidates for the Charles A. Cof
fin Fellowships should file appli
cations on forms provided for that
purpose, and obtainable from the
Secretary. Applications will be wel
comed from seniors desiring to do re
search work as a part of the re
quirements for an advanced degree
as well as graduates of universities,
colleges, and technical schools, but
any award to a senior will be condi
tioned upon his graduation.
The Committee requests that all
applications first be sent to the dean
of the educationa ilnstitution at
which the applicant is, or has been,
in attendance within the year. The
Committee desires that the dean or
other college executive in turn file
all the applications received by him
at the same time, together with a
statement naming the TWO men
applying who in his opinion or the
opinion of the faculty are best qual
ified to receive the award.
Applications must be filed with
the Committee by March 1, 1930, and
should be addressed to Secretary,
Charles A. Coffin Foundation, Schen
ectady, N. Y.
French Twer Has
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Idea Death is Sleep
Georges Clemenceau, war-time
premier of France who died last
week, has commenced a dreamless
sleep if his ideas on the hereafter
have been fulfilled.
In a work entitled, “In the Even
ing of My Thought,” which he wrote
recently, and published by Houghton
Mifflin Company, the Tiger declares,
“A dreamless sleep, that is, purely
negative state of unconsciousness is
all that we can anticipate of death.
That is not very terrifying. An ab
sence of pleasure; an absence of
pain. To dread such a state surely
indicates a lack of balanced judg
ment, since we enter it, by no means
without satisfaction, at the end of
every day. When we have completed
our daily task, do we not seek to re
cuperate in sleep ? Death is no more
and no less than sleep.”
| Hutchins Claims
Profs. Poorly Paid
The greatest need of American
education, according to the youthful
president of Chicago University, Rob
ert Maynard Hutchins, is more mon
ey for faculty members to “make
education respectable and to enable
colleges and universities to compete
with business for the nation’s best
minds.”
“In the past 25 years,” he says,
“the best minds of America have
been drawn into business. Hence,
American education faces a new prob
lem in competition—competition with
big business for the best men. If
you spread $100,000,000 over all the
worthy colleges in the land you might
increase each professor’s salary as
much as $1.34. You might as well
throw the money in the lake. But
spend it on the key universities and
you will develop pacemakers that
will revitalize American education.”
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Did You Know
The U. S. .S. Aquatania used over
5,000 TONS of fuel in one trip
across the Atlantic Ocean.
* * * *
There are 9,000 cells in one square
foot of honey comb?
* * *
The back-bone of a camel is
straight like that of a horse or
cow ?
* * *
The pacific ocean has an average
depth of a little less than two and
one-half miles ?
* * *
Nearly 25,000,000 girls under six
teen years old in India are married ?
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There . were 227,495,544 volumes
published in the United States in
1927?
* * *
There are the same number of
bones in the neck of a mouse as
there are in the neck of a girafee ?
* * *
Coffee originated in Arabia and
was first introduced in London in
1652?
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A whale can not breathe under
water ?
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Casey has lost his $90.00 a month
cat?” Please help him find her!
H« Hi ♦
“Applehead” Foster, of the Sons
of Rest, eats armadilla meat instead
of ’possum ?
* * *
Chop Suey was first made by an
Irishman in San Francisco ?
Yale to Make
Study of Apes
Two hundred acres of land near
Orange Park, Fla., have been se
cured by Yale University for the
breeding and scientific study of an
thropoid apes.
The purchase of the site, and the
erection of the laboratory were made
possible by a gift of $500,000 from
the Rockefeller Foundation.
One or more of the species of
apes will be studied. These include
the chimpanzee, the gorilla, the or-
ang-oytang and the gibbon. Study
will be made of the habits, social
relations, life history and phycholo-
logical development of the animals.
His plan would be to select three
“key universities,” one in the East,
one in the mid-west and one on the
Pacific.