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...tentacles of commercialism have reached out towards Harvard's Commencement activities. With a sense of mild wonder mingled with relief the CRIMSON learns from the chairman of the reunion committee of a recent class, which shall not be named, that he has been unable to secure from the Flit Company costumes, nice orange ones with a headband reading F-L-I-T, to be worn on the day of the Yale baseball game. "We tried to, but we couldn't manage it," this official ingenuously confessed...
...welcome, and museums with clean pictures, in all of which France is poor," four intelligentsiacs last summer deserted Paris to tour central Europe in an automobile. Novelist Wescott was along and, like a good intelligentsiac, kept his head rambling with the car. As the landscape from Paris to Bamberg flits before his eyes, thoughts on literature, religion, mankind-in-general flit behind. These he sets down deferentially "in fear and trembling" at generalizing on such knotty themes...
...Henry James originally thought up and which was later used in a play called Berkeley Square. But instead of plausibly explaining the hiatus which exists between the dead past and the present as did Berkeley Square, the playwright of The Great Barrington simply has the swashbuckling Barrington ancestors flit among their haughty descendants in the ancient house on the banks of the Hudson. It develops that the democratic daughter of the modern Barringtons wants to marry a poor but honest young man. She is thwarted, however, by her prideful parents who remind her of the duty she owes the memory...
Last week Dr. Michelson started his latest machinery. A ray of light shuttled through the tube for a course of 44 mi. It was a swift flash, less than 1-4,000th of a second in duration, was mechanically clocked with minute precision. Again Dr. Michelson made the light flit; and again. Repetitions, which must be averaged, will take weeks. Dr. Michelson waved goodbye to his assistants, motored to the comforts of his home in Pasadena...
Four men who hope some day to flit from planet to planet in rocket planes were last week making preparations to leave the earth. Inventor Maurice Poirer of Burbank, Calif., fired a miniature moon-plane from the top of a mountain, watched it crash to the bottom of San Francisquito Canyon. In Italy a 132-lb. rocket designed by another U. S. rocketeer, Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, exploded, seriously injured four mechanics. In Vienna, the Meteorological Institute of Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society...