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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsored by a committee of nine men, Colonel Morris Frank, lecturer of the "Seeing Eye" school in Morristown, New Jersey, will give an illustrated talk on the work of training dogs to guide the blind. The lecture, open to all interested, will take place Monday in the Kirkland House Common Room and will start at 7:15 o'clock...
...meeting this evening in the Common Room at 7.30 o'clock, the Lowell House Scientific Society will hear Charles S. Draper, assistant professor of Aeronautical Engineering at M. I. T. who will speak on stunt flying and will show flight movies...
Members of the Debating Council were assigned to teams for debates with Radcliffe, Holy Cross, Yale, Brown, Williams, and Amherst at a meeting in Lowell House Common Room last evening. The assignments were announced by assistant coach Irving Murray in the absence of Edward Rowe, Harvard's Debating Director...
...great musicians were prodigies, but not all prodigies grow up to be great musicians. Nevertheless, last week the U. S. was teeming with precocious moppets of seven, eight, nine and up who were practicing or performing with more than common ability...
Machines. Atom-smashing machines, most spectacular exhibits of laboratory science, have one feature in common: they must be huge in order to build up and handle the tremendous particle energies which they require for their work. In general they are of three kinds. The first, developed both in England and the U. S.., builds up high voltages by means of transformers and condensers. The second stores static electricity on balloon-sized electrodes until the potential is such that a mighty flow of direct current crosses the gap. For technical reasons, notably the difficulty of constructing a discharge tube which will...