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...records for a 621-mile course. Another "fortress" climbed to 33,400 feet carrying five tons (world's record). In time for the party at Wright Field, a brand new Boeing B-17B, first of 26 supercharged versions of the present "fortress" about to be delivered, hurtled from Burbank, Calif, to Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. (2,450 miles) in 9 hr. 14 min. 30 sec., at average speed of 259.398 m.p.h., only two hours slower than the transcontinental record made by Howard Hughes in a racing plane. Finally, a Grumman amphibian flew 1,000 kilometers (621 miles...
...they have laid a tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole in the ground in Menlo Park, N. J., where Thomas A. Edison and his helpers threw their laboratory junk...
...Formal genetics" has also been attacked in Russia by Professor T. D. Lysenko, a practical trial-&-error plant breeder of the school of Luther Burbank. It has been defended by Professor N. I. Vaviloff, an academic geneticist of international repute. The letter-writing students admired practical Lysenko, scorned academic Vaviloff. That the Kremlin Government does not know just what to make of this howdydo is evident from the fact that both Lysenko and Vaviloff have been permitted to air their views in the Soviet press...
Perhaps Professor Burbank's outstanding contribution to the University was the work that he did under President Lowell in helping to create the tutorial system. This bold step toward personalizing education, so deeply needed here at Harvard, has given American colleges a standard, an example of which the University may well be proud. With large lecture courses broadening the breach between teacher and student, the tutorial system has done must to restore a better relationship between them. Throughout its infancy, riddled with children's diseases of any new system, the tutorial system has always found Professor Burbank an able pediatrician...
Professor Burbank's resignation may imply merely that he has tired of the stress of administration and wishes to retire to more scholastic activities. Yet, following so closely on the heels of the recent purge of "middle group" men, those who bear the brunt of tutorial activities, the resignation has rather disquieting implications. Now, more than at any time i nits career, the tutorial system needs strong friends, able doctors who can pull the system out of its recent attack of budgetosis. Yet Professor Burbank has packed up his bag and closed his connection with the case. Does this move...