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Twenty years ago Lowell Thomas was professor of oratory at Chicago's Kent College of Law. Ever since, he has been bustling about the earth, writing and talking profusely about what he has seen and heard. His gaddings took him through the War zones, to Palestine and Arabia, to the Peace Conference, to India with the Prince of Wales, through 5,000 miles of the first Army round-the-world flight (1924). His 20-odd books range geographically from With Lawrence in Arabia to Kabluk of the Eskimo...
Opening a series of lectures on the earth and the moon, Dr. H. T. Stetson gave a clear explanation of lunar tides, both in the ocean and in the atmosphere itself, in a lecture given at the Harvard Observatory last evening...
...addition to moving pictures of the preparations and take-off and of the movements of the balloon in flight several miles above the earth, Captain Stevens showed several photographs of the earth's surface taken at high altitudes through the bottom of the gondola in which the men were enclosed. Lantern slides pictured some of the processes used in the construction of a balloon and explained the highly complicated scientific and mechanical apparatus which the balloon contained...
...Loring B. Andrews '25 will give the second lecture, "The Moon and the Stars in Navigation," on Friday, and this will be followed by another lecture by Dr. Stetson, who speaks Saturday of this week on "The Earth, Radio, and the Moon." "Metoors and Meteor Craters on Earth and Moon," by Fletcher Watson, assistant in Astronomy, is scheduled for Monday, February 11, and Dr. Carol A. Rieke will deliver the last, "Theories of the Origins of the Earth and Moon" on Tuesday, February...
...Author is a Jack of all professions -aviator, novelist, archeologist, biographer. His novels, written under the pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, are in Scots dialect. His Earth Conquerors, a series of short biographies of famed explorers, was published by Simon & Schuster last autumn. The Conquest of the Maya has the official praise of Fellow of the Royal Society G. Elliot Smith, champion of the theory that all human culture was diffused from a common point in the Nile Valley...