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JULIA NEWBERRY'S DIARY-Introduction by Margaret Ayer Barnes & Janet Ayer Fairbank-Norton...
Seventeen years later Principal Miller and Dr. Meyer had Dr. Ruth Eldred Fairbank, Johns Hopkins' psychiatrist, see what had become of Locust Point's morons of 1914. What she found she reported last week in Mental Hygiene. She found most of them still living in the neighborhood. All but two of the girls were married. Only five cases of illegitimacy and five cases of prostitution occurred during the 17 years. Three-fourths of the subnormals are supporting themselves. One became a Pro- hibition agent. One "nitwit," who can write only his name, progressed to an inspector...
...second annual Amateur Air Meet, held yesterday afternoon at the East Boston Airport, the Flying Club members succeeded in gaining two first places and two seconds. Flying the club's Waco plane, B. L. Fairbank '34 won a closed course race for pilots with less than 300 hours flying time against a field of five. F. L. Spreckles '35, with a borrowed ship, annexed third place...
Harvard also scored in the bomb dropping contest in which pilots dropped small bags of flour onto a target from a height of not under 200 feet. A. M. Brown '34, president of the club got first place by dropping his bomb approximately 30 feet from the mark. Fairbank gained second place with a distance of slightly under 40 feet. The contestants were hampered by a gusty wind which carried the light bombs off their course. The club gained another score when Fairbank finished second in the precision landing contest. The flyers throttled their motors at 2000 feet, circled down...
...Authoress Fairbank had done nothing else in her 525 pages, reprinting this popular song of the early 1800's would make it worth the price of admission. Critical readers may find her U. S. chronicle of 100 years ago vigorous in outline, feeble in detail. But there are plenty of doings in The Bright Land; they and its scenery keep the reader's interest, even if its people rarely move him to sympathetic belief...