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This talk marks the third year in which Morison has opened the Freshman entertainment program with his almost traditional "Story of Harvard Yard." It is considered most appropriate as the initial Union extra-curricular meeting, since it outlines the history of the area in which the Yardlings will spend their first collegiate year...
Five meter waves, which have many of the diffractional qualities of light, can be transmitted satisfactorily it has been found, for distances up to fifty miles. Thus the airplane or balloon can cover a wide area away from the home station without losing contact...
...paramount importance last week, and liable to be seized by Japan while Italy distracts the world's attention, was the remainder of North China. Last June efforts were made by Japan to cripple that part of this area within the Great Wall by demanding that its local Government, the Peiping Political Council, be abolished. Nanking could not refuse but the adroitness with which Premier Wang & Cabinet yielded caused Japan's Military Attache in Peiping to exclaim in puzzlement: "I do not regret the abolition of the Council, but the Chinese did it suddenly, without talking...
Among the fraternity, French art dealers have a handy way of figuring the value of pictures by artists with established reputation: they measure the canvases and divide the area into the resulting number of numéros (a numero being a space about five inches square). Pablo Picasso, highest priced of any French painter, gets about 7,000 francs per numero for his canvases. From that peak prices drop sharply. In Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art gave its first one-man show of the season to an artist rated by most dealers the third or fourth highest priced...
Rubbings are made by placing a large sheet of paper over the area that is to be reproduced and pushing it carefully into the interstices of the relief so that it makes a closely fitting cover. an inked pad is then rubbed lightly over the surface inking the high spots of the relief and producing an accurate impression of the figures...