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...Ward's intention to destroy any mental institutions and set up new ones. The tone of raillery adopted throughout is merely "to make the mystery vivid," and "awareness of thobbing" is all that is urged upon the reader. The author is so stuffed-to-the-ears with quotable information on his vast array of thobbers that the moderately learned will make heavy weather of his pages if they try to read all. But trust the author of Evolution for John Doe to make his main point clear and entertaining. Leave it to the erudite to plough through the whole book...
...establishing contacts between members of the same class. Yet even these have suffered during the middle age darkness of sophomore and junior years when the class has scattered to cover until the rendez-vous in the Yard. The plan for a division of upperclassmen into college groups would destroy to a great degree this unhappy circumstance. But even more important than this, it would establish contacts between men of different classes in the proposed colleges, contacts at present the good fortune of the few. Such contacts are highly necessary. To think and to converse on a class plane implies...
...Tampa and the Modoc take turns patrolling the danger area, where the warm Gulf currents meet the Arctic flows at the "cold wall." Their duties are to spot the huge chunks of ice by their own lookouts or from the wire-lessed reports of other ships, to destroy such bergs by explosives if possible, otherwise to keep them ever in sight, reporting twice a day their whereabouts to ships which might be struck and to the U. S. hydrographic office at Washington. Fogs and other weather conditions too are radioed, and on this news the weather department partly bases...
...Destroying icebergs is dangerous work. Usually a small boat puts off from the cutter carrying high explosives, which are planted at accessible spots. Sometimes, though, overhanging ledges threaten to snap off with cold, pitiless destruction. Here mines are floated down. Often a berg is too enormous to destroy; one has been sighted 65 feet _ high, 1690 feet long, with an estimated content of 36,000,000 tons of ice, of which about 8/9 was. under water out of view. In such cases the guard cutter can only follow until the mass "calves," lets small chunks break off. These accompany...
This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...