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...Harvard spectrometer is designed to observe the solar flares in two ways. First, rather than recording ultra-violet light from the whole solar disc, it can concentrate on a small spot in the center. During this mode of operation, the spectrometer will record the intensity of radiation over the whole ultra-violet spectrum in about 27 minutes...
...easy to evoke for white readers the pace of Harlem life, or to clarify for them the attitude of a man who has emerged from the ghetto. To do so, even before the most sympathetic of audiences, Baldwin must adopt an unfamiliar mode of writing, must continually attempt to find new ways of expressing old thoughts--and then must pray for an intelligent reading and an adaptable audience...
Professor O'Neill explains that the distinctiveness of Irish poetry lies in what is called the "Irish mode." He points out that recent Irish poets, notably Yeats, have had a great influence on all of modern English poetry. Irish poetry in English does not scan like ordinary English classical poetry, since it cannot be divided into feet. This is because Gaelic has a different rhythm, much of which has been retained in the ordinary English speech of the Irish, and that rhythm has affected Irish versification...
Members of the Summer School had a chance to listen to poetry written in this "Irish mode" a few weeks ago when Professor O'Neill gave a reading of some of his own poetry. They will have another opportunity to do this tomorrow evening when Professor O'Neill will speak some of Yeats's poems which he knows by heart at 7:30 p.m. in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House...
Harold C. Martin, director of General Education at Harvard, welcomed Miss Sarton back to Cambridge and introduced her program. "Miss Sarton's poetry is not 'a la mode,' "he declared," "it is poetry of quiet discoveries and silent healing...