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With an excellent literary style, concise and readable, Sir James explains not only the constitution of our universe, but the history of astronomical though from the earliest times. The reader with but a mild interest in the subject matter will find in it a fascinating tale, easy to pick up, next to impossible to lay down. It is another proof of the ancient dictum that the truly great man is he who can express the most complicated of thoughts without resorting to involved phraseology as a sort of camouflage...
...annual Lowell's Birthday Dinner, Thursday, December 13, members of Lowell House will produce "Gamma Gurton's Needle," the earliest full length English comedy, with the aid of whatever properties can be dug out of old New England barns and designed by willing girl-friends. Tryouts for parts will be held in the Tower room this afternoon at 3.15, under the management of Douglas W. Overton '36 and Alan S. Deruer...
...earliest existing fragments of wood-block printing, a Chinese prayer scroll printed in 975 A.D. and recovered from the famous Red Pagoda, or Lai-fund Pagoda, at Hangchow, has been donated to the University Library of Jerome D. Green '96, director of the Tercentenary Celebration. The scroll, obtained by Mr. Greene in China in 1931, and said to be the only one of its kind of such ago in America, will be placed in the Treasure Room...
This Chinese scroll is a notable addition of the University's collection. The earliest specimen of more than 1,515 books, pamphlets, and papers printed in Europe before 1500 now in possession of the University, is St. Thomas Acquinas "Summa de Articulis Fidei," printed at Mains about 1460. There are several excellent Florentine and Venetian books and a perfect copy of Caxton's "Royal Book" printed in 1487 in England. There is also a Hebrew Bible, printed in Lisbon in 1490, and several Spanish items...
...between Britain, the U. S. and Japan, is so drawn that it runs on indefinitely unless denounced by one of the signatories. Two years' notice must be given of such denunciation and it cannot take effect before Dec. 31, 1936. To smash the 5-5-3 treaty on that earliest possible date, Japan must therefore file her denunciation promptly by Dec. 31, 1934. By that same token Ambassador Grew and team, representing the Powers in Tokyo, have a few more weeks in which to impress on the Japanese Government the colossal risks of denunciation...