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Sabre-toothed tigers, the Piltdown man, the man in the moon, Depression, shooting stars, drugs, Element No. 87, the universe and an abstruse geometrical concept christened Rac-these and other matters were discussed & debated last week by the National Academy of Sciences, meeting in New Haven, Conn. For the first time in its history the Academy awarded its Henry Draper medal for research in astronomical physics to a woman: Harvard's Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, for her compilation of the Draper Memorial Catalog of 225,000 stars classified according to their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them...
...actual results of the conversations held in Washington it would probably be idle to expect too much from them. Formal discussion for a period of two or three days can scarcely do much to unravel complicated situations that have been years in the making. Both the time element and the general situation hardly allow of more than the presentation on each side of the national position of the statesmen involved in the discussion, and surely do not allow of any thoroughgoing examination of thorny problems followed by an attempt to arrive at an acceptable solution...
...disadvantage of the small college is obvious. The dramatic element in education does not play a great part in its activities. ... In the last analysis . . . it is through them that each State and section must maintain ample cultural opportunities for the youth within reasonable distance from their homes and in circumstances fitted to the needs of each community and its people...
Both the theory of aesthetics and the history of aesthetic criticism could be combined in one course which would require, as a prerequisite, a thorough knowledge of the History of Fine Arts. Such a course would be an essential and unifying element to the instruction now attempted by the Department...
...Hoffman, burly right guard who is in his element on the front line of attack. An indefatigable player, this 194, pound strong-man will surely cause a good deal of trouble to the Harvard line-men who oppose...