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Calmly the Senate opens its day. Calmly it hears the invocation of divine guidance. Calmly?as the more punctual members drift in through many doors?it receives, the daily ton of telegrams, letters which Rotarians, Kiwanians, Lions, Elks, Owls, women's associations, welfare workers, American Legion posts, Chambers of Commerce, have sonorously inscribed and asked a Senator to present...
...christening and testing again his triple-engined Fokker monoplane, the Josephine Ford (in honor of a 3-year-old daughter of a financial backer, Edsel Ford); after laying in 200 smoke bombs and a supply of potassium permanganate (purple when moistened) to be used as targets for his drift-indicator (compass) when flying over snowfields; after discussing landing-skis with a Canadian expert and buying a second extra set, larger than any, for the Josephine, as well as a small set for her tail; after explaining into a microphone for the radio public how he intends to visit the North...
...universities have, by their very size, to a great extent lost their grip on their students. Whether or not this plan of subdivision would enable them to regain that hold on the individual student is a question for our great educators to determine. Already there are signs of a drift toward English methods in dealing with the question. The two great English Universities represent more centuries of educational evolution than most of our own have dared to contemplate. Even a generation ago, Harvard University was a compact and easily handled college, a veritable cultural unit, compared with what...
...region, which escaped the glacier many thousands of years ago, and to determine the nature of the fish in the more northern fjords. Iselin and Keogh will take oceanographic sections of the Labrador Current to try to determine what causes it and where it comes from and goes to. Drift bottles will be set and cards put inside. They will ask the finders to mail them to Dr. Bigelow and say where they were found. It is uncertain as to where they will drift, Norway being one of the most probable possibilities. The salinity of the water is a decisive...
...spring fever be blamed upon the approach of April, so may the hour examinations. These more or less Jucid intervals of spasmodic scribbling follow closely upon the first bluebird and drift along until the new blades of grass anounce the deadline. At the present moment, any student carrying the normal, any student carrying the normal burden of courses probably has an hour examination or so both before and behind him, and several right under his feet...