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...Presidential party was 15 minutes early, so they waited in the automobile, surrounded by four bird cages and the two collies, before the special six-car train was ready. The engine hissed, the piston began to churn; the President waved goodbye to Gabriel (a town near White Pine Camp), Mrs. Coolidge filmed the natives with her cinema machine...
Announcement of the four winners of the Harvard Club of Boston Scholarships, and the winner of the Charles Sumner Scholarship--formerly known as the Charles Sumner Bird Scholarship--were made recently, and the five men named will enter the University as members of the Freshman class this fall...
...Sumner Scholarship, donated by Charles Sumner Bird '77 was won this year by L. E. Belknap '30 of Beverly, a graduate of the Beverly High School...
...desk. Near the tube was a radio transmitter. No one tampered with the gas supply, yet the gas flame was made to flare up, turn from yellow to blue and roar. Dr. Hall explained that seven miles away, in the General Electric Co.'s laboratory, Charles Kellogg, famed "bird man," was broadcasting notes from the phenomenal upper register of his voice. The vibrations, 15,000 to 20,000 per second, transmitted by radio, affected the gas flame as would the vibrations set up by a tuning fork in the experiment familiar to physics students. Sufficiently intense vibrations would have...
...dinner hour at The Balsams, Dixville Notch, N. H. Ravenous tourists and contented residents were scooping vegetables out of their "bird's bath-tubs," calling for more butter and chattering happily all through the airy dining-hall. Back and forth between her table and the kitchen, plied Helen Albro Park of Brooklyn, whose summer as a waitress was drawing to a close. Soon she would be returning to Boston University to take up her junior-year courses. How good it would be to handle books again after stacks of trays and dishes...