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...Middlesex May 10 Lowell Textile May 13 Dartmouth May 17 Exeter May 20 At Yale varsity Golf April 3 At North Carolina April 4 At Duke April 6 At Wake Forest April 17 M.I.T. April 20 Amherst April 22 Dartmouth April 25 Holy Cross April 27 Babson Institute April 28 Brown May 5-6 Eastern Intercollegiates (Columbia, Princeton, Yale) May 12-14 New England Intercollegiate Championship Playoff at Oakley Country Club May 22 At Williams Freshman Golf April 25 Lowell Institute April 29 At Exeter May 3 At Andover May 6 Yale May 10 Nichols Junior College Varsity Tennis April...
...Babson grabbed an early 6 to 0 lead, but Wilson ordered a full-court press. The consequent Harvard drive, capped by Forrest Hansen's two-pointer, sent the Crimson ahead to stay...
Even with the second team playing most of the time, Floyd Wilson's freshman basketball team had no trouble downing Babson, 76 to 49, in a game played at the Blockhouse last night...
...Babson himself believes that the most important use for anti-gravity screens would be in generating power. Babson's anti-gravity essay contest attracted 88 papers, which Babson read with delight ("It was just like opening Christmas presents"). On the advice of Boston's business panjandrum Charles Francis Adams ("Get a professor to look them over. That will take the smell off it"), he had the papers checked by Physics Professor Howard O. Stearns of Simmons College...
Unfortunately, none of the essays told Roger Babson how to make an anti-gravity screen. First Prizewinner David T. Wittry of the University of Wisconsin ($1,000) described historical attempts, all failures. Second Prizewinner C. Peter Johnson Jr. of Harvard ($500) dived into unproductive mathematics. Third Prizewinner: John C. Cook of Pennsylvania State College ($250). But Babson is not downhearted. He remembers the last time he talked with Thomas Alva Edison, who died in 1931. Said Edison: "Babson, remember you don't know nothin' about nothin'. You've got to find something that insulates from gravity...