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This issue of the "Harvard Monthly" springs so directly from the flames of earlier days that it might well be called the Phoenix Number. It is made up entirely of reprinted writings by former editors and contributors from George Santayana to Ernest A. Simpson. When another former editor, of so antique a date as the third year of the "Monthly's" infancy (1887-88), turns its pages he must resist the temptation to drop into an "in my day" mood--and so he does...
There was a period of twenty years--from 1917 to 1937--when the "Monthly," like Lucy, ceased to be. How faithfully will the revised magazine come to represent, in this later day, what its forerunner once represented? That is a question still to be answered. In this Phoenix issue it is interesting to note that many of the contributors deprecate, in notes about the reprinting of their early productions, the immaturity now exposed to view. They may be regarded in general as their own severest critics. The exceptions are Walter Lippmann and Oswald Garrison Villard who stand up in their...
...Colorado" spent most of its time refueling four destroyers, two airplanes, the coast guard cutter "Itasca," and the Navy mine sweeper which was supposed to have refueled the aviators at Howland Island. Captain William Fridell soon tired of this menial task, however, and put for the phoenix Islands, nearly 300 miles south of the equator. The captain figured that winds and current would have driven the lost pair south...
Wherever the winds and current drove the aviators, it soon became apparent that they were not in the vicinity of the Phoenix Islands. But the searchers had a couple of exciting moments. Once, said Chase, we thought we saw a light on the horizon, but it turned out to be heat lightning. Again, we really did see a light on the horizon, but it was no plane, merely, Venus putting in a 2 A.M. appearance...
...boys saw other sights on Phoenix Island. They even saw the remains of the recent Harvard eclipse expedition down there, and they went close enough to be sure that nobody had been left behind in that lonely spot...