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...Stratosphere is a rarefied layer, presumably 20 mi. deep, encountered about eight miles above the earth's surface. The temperature is curiously stationary: about ?75° F. About 40 mi. beyond the stratosphere is the mysterious Heaviside Layer of ionized gases, from which radio waves "bounce" like light rays from a mirror...
There seems to be little reason for a whole chapter on Aiken's novel. "Blue Voyage", which as a particularly clear elucidation of the author's own ideas could hardly by improved on by another layer of prose by Mr. Peterson. However, taken all in all he has written a lucid and illuminating appreciation of Courad Aiken whom he realizes to have gone as far as possible in the direction of spiritual disorder without plunging into madness," a poet who lives with the language of Freud and the feelings of Othello...
...there are no potable wells on the islands; all drinking water is rain water, collected in cisterns from the unpainted roofs. Fortunately it rains nearly every day or night. Roads are white, too, for the islands are made of the white coral. Above the coral foundation is a thin layer of rich red earth in which grow the aromatic Bermuda cedars, the cultivated acres of caster lilies, potatoes and kale, but few onions. "Bermuda onions" for U. S. markets are grown in Texas, Florida. Bicycles are essential to the Bermudians and to all but the richest visitors, because no automobiles...
...rolls up his sleeves to polish off Mr. Shaw, the famous Irish wit is made to look like a second rate effusion of Mr. Colley Cibber. Shaw, "has the brain of a juvenile Machiavelli superposed on a crybaby, philistine, middle-class soul... His brain is a half-inch layer of champagne poured over a bucket of Methodist near-beer." All Mr. De Casseres sees in Shaw is the mountebank who jigs for money, the Barnum of the drama, and nothing else. After reading this book the Shabian bubble is pierced...
This year's resident in Dunster and Lowell Houses have been chosen by House Master and tutors with a view to each House having a typical slice from the human layer-cake of the College. Certain tutors will live in the Houses, others will have conference rooms in them and live elsewhere, but every student-in a given House will have at least on resident tutor. These methods are admittedly experimental. It is hoped that each House will in time develop an individuality and attract students by their major interests...