Word: epical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appropriate selections from Mr. Noyes's verse, relates for U. S, ears as well as English a visit to the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. Mr. Noyes was there the night the new 100-inch telescope was first put into use. The experience started him writing his blank verse epic of science, The Torchbearers. The U. S.'s high rank in pure science was superbly certified when Astronomer George Ellery Hale called his guests and assistants to be the first humans to witness the rising of one of Jupiter's eight moons...
This June day of 1927 is, then, an epic moment in an epic history. President Lowell can well be proud of the Harvard he has brought to what the ancient Greeks would have called a state of "happiness." Harvard can well be proud of the leader under whose vigorous, yet quiet direction, she has attained such pleasant heights...
MATTOCK-James Stevens-Knopf ($2.50). Another chapter of the national epic...
...Architecture of the Epic" will be the subject of the lecture to be given tomorrow by Professor R. S. Conway, visiting lecturer from Victoria University, Manchester, England. The lecture will take place in Harvard 1 at 4.30 o'clock...
...known, none have ever dared give an hypodermic injection to a Tenno of Japan; but last week despatches told the epic circumstances under which an injection was administered to the late Tenno Yoshihito during his last illness (TiME, Jan. 3 et ante...