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TODAY Chemistry 5Sever 17 Education B. Ashkenazy Kaku Sever 5 Karp Wilkins Sever 6 English 41 Abend Currier Sever 11 Curtiss Gardner Emerson A Garrison--C. J. Hooper Emerson F H. N. Hooper--Singer Emerson D Smith--Zoll Fogg Lect. Room Fine Arts 15b Fogg Small Rm. French 15 Sever 23 German 1c Emerson J German 4 Sever 24 Government 1 Mr. McFarlane, Sects C1, C2, C3, C4 Memorial Hall Mr. Farbach, Sects. F1, F2, F3, F4 Memorial Hall Mr. Gregory, Sects. G1, G2, G3, G4 New Lect. Hall Mr. Hulse, Sects. H1, H2, H3, H4 New Lect. Hall...
...tenth of their classes (the P. B. K. qualification) should not, however, despair of attaining post-graduate eminence. Let them consider the following college graduates who are not Keymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, J. Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Dillon, Sinclair Lewis, John Hays Hammond Jr., Arthur Curtiss James, William Allen White, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Albert C. Ritchie, Gifford Pinchot, Robert LaFollette,- Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...Curtiss planes used are of a new commercial type called "Carrier Pigeons." The transport company is maintaining ten of them, each costing: $20,000. Specifications: 400-horse Liberty motor, 42-ft. wingspread, 28 ft. long, 12 ft. high, 3,500 Ib. weight, average speed 100 miles per hour. The heaviest load carried on the first day was 276½lb. of mail (about 10,000 letters). The first day's total postage: $8,411.14. The post-office rates: 10? an ounce between Chicago and Dallas; 15? an ounce to points east of Chicago...
...intends to visit the North Pole by flying in 400-mile stages from Spitzbergen with an intermediate base on Cape Morris Jessup. Greenland, taking with him only one flight companion, Chief Petty Officer Floyd Bennett, but having at call by radio in Kings Bay a reserve plane (Curtiss Oriole) manned by fellow service flyers; after reading a great many flattering, tender, hopeful, encouraging farewell messages (doubtless including one from his brother, Governor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, "youngest U. S. governor, 38")?after all was in readiness, Lieutenant Commander Richard E. ("Dickie") Byrd journeyed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
...sounds dubious; but it was not so long ago that people's hair stood on end at the thought of going "a mile a minute." The latest speed record (Lieutenant A. J. William, U. S. Navy, in a Curtiss hydroplane last fall) is 266 m. p. h., or over "four miles a minute." This speed would not have to be quite doubled to permit an 18-hour circummundane flight on the 60th parallel, which is only 8,312 miles around...