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...scene of on unusual real, estate boom. Two large cafeterias have been built in the last two years; a third is now in process of construction. Lunch-rooms, delicatessens, and coffee-houses have sprung up with mushroom-like rapidity. The Square at luncheon hour teems with undergraduates in search of nutriment...
...memory of John Fritz, iron and steel pioneer. It has given the Fritz medal to Lord Kelvin (transatlantic cables), George Westinghouse (air brakes), Alexander Graham Bell (telephones). Last week it designated a slender little man from whose brain have sprung electric arc lights, electric carriages, gyroscopes, super-search-lights, compound Diesel engines. It named Elmer Ambrose Sperry and specifically recognized his "development of the gyrocompass and the application of the gyroscope to the stabilization of ships and airplanes...
...surprising, even shocking, to the stranger to find so little interest in Modern pictures in Boston and Cambridge, places which have a deserved reputation as centers of alent cultivation of the Seven Arts. One may search in vain for the works of the foremost living painters in the Boston Museum, in Fenway Court, or in the Fogg. Neither Matisse nor Bonnard, Picasso nor Derain is to be found in these three more or less comprehensive collections, save in a few prints and drawings. It is even more astonishing that the great founders of the contemporary tradition--men who have been...
...protests of upperclassmen may be explained by resentment at any tentative attempt to invest the Freshman Dormitories with those attributes which have for so long been the monopoly of the Gold Coast. But anyone who finds sensationalism in the mild comment of the reports in question betrays a purposeful search that does him more discredit than the reports could do to any Freshman...
Early in the spring of the year 1516 Juan Diaz de Lolis entered the great estuary on the east coast of South America, now known as the River Plate, Sent out by the governor of Castilla del Oro to search for a strait connecting the Atlantic with the newly discovered Pacific, de Lolis ascended the bay then known as the Mar Dulce as far as the mouth of the Parana River whore in 1516 he was killed by Indians...