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...industry, science and invention, to decreasing the hours of work, but we devote comparatively little to improving the hours of recreation. We associate joy with leisure. We have great machinery to produce joy, some of it destructive, some of it synthetic, some of it mass-produced. We go to chain theatres and movies; we watch somebody else knock a ball over the fence or kick it over the goal bar. I do that and I believe in it. I do, however, insist that no other organized joy has values comparable to the joys of the out-of-doors. We gain...
There are, it is true, some fraternities which form a chain of brotherhood linking certain men in Harvard with certain other men in distant institutions. And there are clubs of various sorts. To dwell on the small part played by most clubs, meaning clubs so titled and also fraternities, as factors in gradations in the Harvard social scale is aphoristic. Every one, including both club men and non-club men, realizes that one is not a pariah because he does or does not belong to a club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow...
...shock to smug civilized security to learn that two men have actually been lost somewhere along the familiar lane between England and America. When Nungesser and Coli left Paris on their flight, the world looked on in satisfaction, anticipating the forging of another link in the long chain of human achievement. And now, in the excitement of the aviators' disappearance, there is a note of surprise...
Lately his twin daughters were elected to help transport the Vassar College daisy chain. Lately, too, authorized by the Princeton trustees, he forbade the young men of Princeton to keep automobiles at college (TIME, March...
Despatches of the past two years have taught U. S. newspaper readers to picture the sky over Germany as crossed and criss-crossed and streaming in all directions with aircraft, like a big duckmarsh at dawn. Last week a new detail entered the picture, a chain of airplanes hooked up like railroad express cars. As the flying train passes over a city, the rear plane is uncoupled. It circles noiselessly to earth. Passengers alight. Their train has vanished down the sky to leave other passengers at other cities. At some terminal city the "locomotive" will descend. ... In an experiment...