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...during the winter to take stock of themselves and their ideas. At such meetings the lay Press often gets first wind of things which Science has had on the fire for some time. Last week 3,000 U. S. and Canadian American Association members gathered in Boston for their 93rd meeting. They were welcomed by Massachusetts' Governor Ely and by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton on behalf of M. I. T., Harvard and eight other Greater Boston institutions acting as hosts. Then in scores of sectional meetings the scientists settled down to read...
...93rd meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which will bring 3,000 scientific men to Boston and Cambridge, will be held in the Harvard and M.I.T. buildings during the Christmas recess. Harvard is playing host in a large measure to the Association and its affiliated organizations, which altogether make up a grand total of 20,000 persons interested in science in some form or other...
...Aintree. The biggest steeplechaser in the year's biggest steeplechase-the 93rd Grand National last week at Aintree, England - was a Chestnut owned by C. P. Brocklehurst named Pelorus Jack. Waiting for the start, while the heavier jockeys stood beside their mounts to avoid tiring them, Pelorus Jack was well-behaved. He balked at one of the early jumps and unseated his rider. At the Canal Turn, a 6-ft. ditch and 5-ft. hedge of fir in front of a right-angle turn, Pelorus Jack was responsible for one of those moments of wild confusion which occur...
From Washington last week Vice President Charles Curtis crossed the Alleghenies to Huntington, W. Va., to deliver the 93rd commencement address of Marshall College, to receive an honorary LL.D. Although not a college graduate, the Vice President is no novice at accepting degrees (LL.D.'s, Washburn College, Baker University and Kansas State Teachers' College; all in Kansas). Nevertheless at Marshall he seemed to fumble his manuscript, looked nervously at the audience which packed the ornate cinema theatre where the ceremony was held. Confused, he turned and, momentarily mistaking the faculty on the platform behind him for the graduating class, began...
That fatal morning was not yet over. At 11:35 in the basement of the Cleveland Clinic, at 93rd Street and Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, a stock of X-ray films exploded. At that hour there were 234 people in the building. Within 15 minutes about 100 of them were dead, with many more dying...