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Our Terratological collection is now com- 

 plete. The aristocracy of Yankee chron- 

 ology has been supplemented by the 

 aristocracy of celestial selection. In this 

 bewildering variety what chance has an 

 ordinary man? 



Tell the unvarnished truth. You are apos- 

 tles of artificial advantage. You are organ- 

 ized opponents of equality of opportunity. 

 You have lost the common touch for the 

 adoration of our "bunch," including, always, 

 number one. 



You would not be half so objectionable 

 if you would drop your shams and admit 

 yourselves to be the "Haberdasher and 

 Stock Exchange House of Lords" — self per- 

 petuated unto all eternity within the Halls 

 of' the College of Pharmacy. 

 Very truly yours, 



J. J. CORONEL, 



Historian Class '17 



MOST ACCURATE CLOCK. 



Timepiece in Cleveland is said to 

 Hold World's Record. 



In the Case School of Applied Science 

 in Cleveland there is a clock that holds 

 the world's record for accurate time- 

 keeping. Over a period of several 

 months it showed a variation of onh 

 eight-thousandths of a second a day, 

 which, in a year's time, would be less 

 than three seconds. 



Ship chronometers,, which are the 

 most accurate time measuring instru- 

 ments in general use, cannot keep true 

 time within less than three to five sec- 

 onds a month. Marine observations are 

 absolutely dependent on accurate time- 

 pieces, but ship's officers have to be satis- 

 fied if they can adjust their chronom- 

 eters so that they will either gain or lose 

 a certain amount each day. Then they 

 add or subtract and get absolutely 

 correct time. 



This Case clock, says the Youth's 

 Companion, stands on a stone pier, in- 

 dependent of the building, that extends 



sixteen feet to a natural shale founda- 

 tion. It is in a small room surrounded 

 by two other roomis, all built with brick 

 walls. Gas stoves heat the outer rooms, 

 and electric contact thermometers regu- 

 late the temperature. The gas stove ^ 

 flame automatically rises or falls with 

 the variation in the outside air tempera- 

 ture. Thus on warm days in August the 

 flame in the gas stove is very low, while 

 in below zero January it burns at its 

 brightest. In the clock room itself the 

 temperature is adjusted by an ordinary 

 sixteen candle-power incandescent lamp 

 that is flashed on and ofif by another 

 electric contact thermometer. The school 

 strictly enforces the rule that there must 

 never be more than two persons in this 

 inner room at one time. 



The clock, which stands five feet high, 1 

 has three separate dials that register 

 the hours, minutes and seconds. It is 

 enclosed in an airtight glass jar, inside 

 of which are delicate instruments for 

 measuring temperature, atmospheric 

 pressure and moisture. A small amount 

 of chloride of lime, which is an efficient 

 desiccating material, is kept always in 

 the jar to absorb the moisture. 



By the aid of a set of dry batteries 

 the clock automatically winds itself 

 every seven minutes. The movement is 

 adjusted slow or fast by pumping air 

 in or out of the glass container. Ob- 

 servations are made from the outside 

 through double glass windows through 

 the separating walls and by means of a 

 small electric lamp placed over the dials. 



Not only can this wonderful piece of 

 clock mechanism be adjusted to show 

 less than a three-second annual varia- 

 tion, but it is also possible to make elec- 

 tric connections with other similar 

 clocks elsewhere. With this as a master 

 clock the others can be made to keep 

 the same accurate time. 



