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...hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric stones, and particularly by the scientific study of the shooting stars that flash by the hundred every second into the earth's atmosphere...
...Harkness, through whose generosity it is possible for the Harvard House Plan to become a reality, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1874, and was graduated from Yale in 1897. Besides being a director of many railroads, he is trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Publishing Library, and the Union Theological Seminary...
Professor C. N. Greenough '98, who is to be Master of Dunster House, was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts on June 29, 1874. Immediately after his graduation from Harvard in 1898, he became instructor in English, a position which he held for eight years. During this period he received his A. M. and Ph.D. degrees...
Professor J. L. Coolidge '95, named head of Lowell House, was born in Brookline in September, 1873. He was graduated from Harvard; then studied at Oxford University for two years, and received a degree from the University of Bonn in Prussia...
Author Edmund Lester Pearson, 49. celebrated his 20th wedding-anniversary last year. Born in Newburyport, a Harvard graduate, he is the result of 200 years of Massachusetts deacons. In 1927 he left a position with New York's Public Library to write such unusual detective stories as Murder at Smutty Nose. He indulges a live scholarliness, particularly in the investigation and recital of historic murder cases...