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...disturbed by the motor and other surrounding metal, as to be partially useless. The new instrument is an earth inductor compass, with no magnetic needle, but with a revolving electric coil placed in the tail of the machine-where it is undisturbed by any metal. The contact brushes are so arranged that a galvanometer in the cockpit, connected with the revolving coil, gives no reading when the plane is on her true course. In the 450 miles of blind flight, Barksdale and Jones were only eight miles off their course...
...their blades to cut off C--'s, and nothing more." He said that a student of this kind is a very great detriment to the college community, for he not only fails himself but also exerts a retarding influence on the men with whom he comes in contact. With him it is not a question of spending too much time on athletics or of wasting time in wholesale fashion, but of doing just enough work to pass and no more...
...popular forces mainly, the significance of personal leadership in our history is very strongly emphasized by frequent panegyrical sketches of our "beacon lights." In the brief span of 320 pages, the author gives some consideration to the development of all phases of American life except music and art. After contact with this latest contribution of Professor Hart even the most skeptical could not suppress some feeling of gratitude for his membership in our great Republic...
SIEGE-Samuel Hopkins Adams- Boni & Liveright ($2.00). What happens when a woman of the old type, representing authority and tradition, comes in contact with the new woman, straightforward, honest to her own standards, but determined to be controlled by the standards of no one else? Augusta Ruyland is the woman of the old type. She is the head of the Ruyland family. She controls the mill town of Habersham and all the Ruylands' interests there. She is a benevolent despot who gives her workmen better terms than union labor gets. But she is a despot- insistent upon having...
...youth with a half-formed fancy for law to enroll as clerk in the firm of the revered local "Judge," and at the feet of the mighty, glimpse the realm of torts and crimes. But when colleges rose in the backwoods and daily assignments replaced daily chores this personal contact between novice and initiate was largely lost. It is only occasionally, therefore, that the student who dreams vaguely of a legal career has an opportunity of meeting a master of the profession. And such an opportunity is extended tonight when the Honorable George Wickersham, former Attorney-General of the United...