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Tomorrow at 5 o'clock: Reading German, Babson-Macleod, Harvard 5; Macomber-Ziselman, Harvard 6. Reading French, Abbott-Kelley, New Lecture-Hall; Kennard-Putman, Emerson D; Quinton-Sullivan, Emerson J; Swain-Walden, Emerson A; Wale-Yoken, Emerson...
...that of looseness. His changing metres do not modulate into one another; they clash roughly, giving the impression that the author has written down at random, without revising, Mr. Smart's "Lines before a Fairy Tale", is wholly delightful; a small bit of decoration provocatively brief. Mr. John Abbott's "Marginal" is also a good picture, but, unfortunately, must join that great body of poems with weary last lines. His "Sonnet for Cynthia", too, dwindles away at the end; the three quatrains are memorable; the couplet is, in my opinion, artificial and irrelevant. Neither of these poems represents Mr. Abbott...
...tropical regions will be obliged to wear fur coats, but they are indicative of scientific facts which bear an important relation to future forecasting of weather conditions", declared Mr. Henry Helm Clayton, prominent meteorologist, to a CRIMSON reporter in commenting upon the recent report of Dr. C. J. Abbott, of the Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Clayton has for many years cooperated with Dr. Abbott in the study of the effects upon the earth of changes in solar heat, and for the last ten years has, as the head of the Argentine Meteorological Department, used his observations in making daily weather predictions...
...much different. During the summer, when the sun is shining directly upon the temperate zones, these regions have cool weather because of the less intense heat from the sun, while the winters are mild because the districts are not subject to winds from the north. The reports of Dr. Abbott indicate that the solar radiation is low at present, and, if this condition continues, the summer will undoubtedly be cool with frequent rains and milder than usual...
...Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77: Public Opinion in War and Peace. A penetrating analysis of modern society by the President of Harvard University...