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Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727, the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned body in the U. S. Philosophy was once synonymous with science, and the society's usual convention agenda are almost wholly scientific, with frequent speculative spice and many a dash of human interest. Noteworthy discussions at last week's meeting...
After gathering his yoga experience, Dr. Behanan returned to Yale's Institute of Human Relations where he used occidental psychological and physiological apparatus to analyze the effects of yogic practices, which he continued as much for self as for Science. Before he took up yoga he suffered frequent headaches, lacked vigor. Now: "No work, physical or mental, could tire me so rapidly as it did before. . . . My mental-emotional life is no longer a blind catch-as-catch...
...today. Across the tarmac and down the four runways of Teterboro Field, near little Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., the great and near-great flyers of the day paraded in ceaseless pageant. Bernt Balchen and Clarence Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most of the big commercial transports but such famed planes as the Josephine Ford which Admiral Byrd flew over the North...
Storms are frequent on the Lakes and there have been at least two disastrous hurricanes, in 1869 and 1913. Winked at by sailors on the snub-nosed freighters but still believed by old Chippewas, farmers and fishermen around the Straits of Mackinac is the Great Lakes' most eerie legend-the Indian Drum. Distinctly reverberant on nights of storm, the Drum of the Manitou has been heard to give one roll for every ship sunk on the Lakes, one beat for every life lost. Around one night on which the Drum counted wrong, Authors William Machharg & Edwin Balmer wrote...
...also known by a few that baseball permeates Harvard, Hawk-eyes may suspect such a fact by the frequent smack of ball against glove on the greens of the Houses, especially by the activity on Soldier's Field. Baseball is good at Harvard, too, and for several years Cambridge teams have sparkled in collegiate competition. It may be true that Harvard has not the best diamond and bleachers in the world, that this year the nine has given us a disappointing start; but considering that the Mayor of Harvard might have thrown the first ball...