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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minor Spring Sports Schedules | 3/23/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Five Downs Babson in 76-49 Rout | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Five Downs Babson in 76-49 Rout | 3/8/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Trouble with Gravity | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Trouble with Gravity | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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