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...graduate schools will be in good proportion to those from the college proper, and that Harvard men who have permanently left Cambridge will benefit us occasionally with contributions and criticism. It is the intention of the Hound and Horn to provide in a measure, a point of contact between Harvard and the contemporary outside world, both here and abroad. It will endeavor to represent Harvard's potential best, and it calls upon sympathetic subscribers, contributors, and critics to help it reach such a goal...
...last three years the system of helpful contact between upperclassmen and Freshmen during the first months of college has progressed to a point where for the first time it has come to an actuality. It has gone further than a mere announcement in the CRIMSON of the names of a representative group of Juniors and Sophomores. It has even passed beyond the point where a straggling few of this same group huddled together for mutual protection at a table in a Freshman dining hall while their reason d'etre gazed with kindred timidity from the other end of the room...
...mystery to me is how such a-† ever comes in contact with or interests himself in a moderately intellectual magazine such as TIME...
...adaptation of the reversible propeller blade already used on water ships but hitherto considered too dangerous for planes because of the havoc a pilot would cause by pulling his reversing lever at the wrong moment. The Jenkins device included a safety catch released only by the contact of the plane with its landing surface. When this catch releases, the pilot can "shift gears," reversing the pitch of his propeller blades so that the pressure they beat up pushes the plane backward instead of forward. If reliable, the Jenkins invention promised to be even more effective than the wheel brakes already...
...conclusion let me sound an optimistic note. My contact with the coming generation makes me proud of them. They are in love with life. They are keenly interested in their fellow beings. They seek causes rather than fundamentals. They freely discuss sex morality. They try experiments, often to the horror of their parents-but here is the chief point, 'they live by what they think is right,' not by code. And the thing which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code...