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Seated in a steel sphere Explorer Beebe and Otis Barton, inventor, dropped 1,426 ft. into the sea, 1,076 ft. deeper than the record. On the sphere's outer surface was fastened a dead fish. Through thick windows of fused quartz the divers could peer out at deep sea creatures, lured near by the fish bait, never before seen by man in their natural state. So great was the depth that only the blue and violet rays of the sun's spectrum penetrated, yet the submarine scene seemed brilliantly lighted compared to the gloom of the diving...
Inventor Otis Barton-Harvard graduate (1922), onetime Paris art student, African big game hunter-last year de-signed and built a diving ball which proved too heavy for any practical hoisting equipment. The present, successful model weighs two tons. The diving "bell" de-signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added...
...Barton dismisses those graduates who take graduation as a sort of release from the serious things in life and who now go out to occupy some small job, and he also passes over those who have prepared for the break with some careful thinking. The group he discusses is that one that has the "sheepskin blues". It is the bigger group and contains many of the prominent and popular men of the class. It contains those who "are blue because they do not know what they want to do, and bluest when they discover that their unpreparedness is a handicap...
Although the article is not exactly comforting to the men that fall in this category because of their indecision, it, however, points out that Time is one of the most powerful allies on the side of youth and that even those who suffer from this mania that Mr. Barton describes can succeed. Also to those who cannot find their proper business there is the phrase, "to every man who really gives his best, his own business is the most exciting and satisfying in the world...
...Barton discusses from a new angle the "after graduation--what?" question and it is encouraging to see a modern business philosopher who has himself interviewed many college men take the attitude that he does...