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...messenger chosen in each state to carry the ballots to Congress is generally one of the Electors, although sometimes a prominent politician gets the job. He is paid 25 cents a mile traveling expenses by the Federal Government -a neat sum, especially for him who comes from the Pacific Coast...
...Shapley also mentioned the fact that Harvard University sponsored the first eclipse expedition ever sent out from an American institution, which left Boston in 1780. After special arrangements with the British forces who then held the Maine coast, the astronomical party was allowed to land at Penobscot Bay, though it was forbidden to communicate with the inhabitants. The observations were successful and instructive, being of great value to mariners as well as astronomers, for at that time the moon's position was not so accurately known...
...amateur radio stations on the Pacific Coast have been in communication with Radio Station IXJ-IAF, the new relay station of the University Wireless Club located on top of the Stadium, in two days of experimental operation. This announcement was issued by the secretary of the club, Harris Fahnestock '27, when interviewed last night...
...receivers have, however, picked up amateur stations in England, France, Holland, and Brazil. We have also heard a commercial station in Argentine. Although only the short wave transmitter has been in operation, we have already in addition to our West Coast record, communicated with amateur stations in all of the nine districts in the United States. This, in two days, is far better than we did in two years in the old location. As soon as the finishing touches have been made and the other transmitter hooked up we should be able to start breaking a few records...
...other parts of the country, however, the movement is much stronger. New York City alone has 12 circles and the total membership in the League numbers over 1,000 students, covering territory from coast to coast. The society is not altogether revolutionary in its principles, for according to Arne J. Parker, of Fitchburg, it "believes in a gradual evolution by a process of education rather than in radical methods to attain the ultimate goal of socialism. We are in no sense in sympathy with communistic or other ultra-radical ideas...