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...Coast-to-coast" and now "Gulf to Canada." Lieutenant Harrison G. Crocker left Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, early one morning and reached Self ridge Field, Michigan, the evening of the same day, after 11 hours 54 minutes flight, covering 1,-400 miles in his solitary trip. Liberty motor and De Haviland plane functioned perfectly. The pilot flew low because of low-lying clouds and sometimes almost grazed the treetops. Apart from the added proof of airplane endurance, the flight is a significant demonstration of the fact that low clouds cannot deter skilled aerial navigators...
...battle of Einstein is raging on all fronts more fiercely than ever. Scarcely had Dr. William Wallace Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, announced that photographs taken by the Crocker expedition at Wallal, on the northwest coast of Australia, during the solar eclipse of last September, confirmed the predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity as to the bending of star rays out of their normal paths by the sun's influence, when Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, U. S. N., astronomer at the Mare Island Navy Yard, issued a statement regretting Dr. Campbell's action...
Publicity Committee.--C. B. Barnes Jr. '24, chairman; B. McK. Henry '24, Gardner Cowles '25, V. H. Crocker '25, and W. H. Gratwick...
...Crocker '25 has resigned from the position of assistant secretary of the Lampoon, to which office he was elected last Tuesday evening. A new man to fill his place will be elected at the next board meeting...
...following officers were chosen: President, Frederick Humphrey Nichols 24 of New York City: Ibis, Barklie Mckee Henry '24 of Rosemont Pa.; treasurer, John McKinstry Kimball '24 of Portland, Me.; secretary, Henry Lathrop Gilbert Jr. '24 of Columbus, O.; assistant treasurer, Merrill Garcelon '25 of Newton; assitant secretary, Uriel Haskell Crocker '25 of Cambridge...