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...polar region in the U. S. In the basin of the Yukon it is warm. There are from 70 to 100 days in the growing season. But over the mountains to the north there are rarely more than 40 days in the year in which there is no killing frost. Not only is it a polar land, it is almost a desert as well. It has less than ten inches of rainfall a year?about the same amount as Arizona or Nevada. There are no trees, only a very little stunted vegetation...
...they? As has been said before, Memorial Hall has both itself and human nature working against it. With all its mediaeval atmosphere, and the tradition which clings about it like hoar frost, it is too frosty. The interior of Memorial is repellant, the position of Memorial, since the center of college life has shifted to Massachusetts Avenue and beyond, is unfortunate. Finally it is in human nature--or at least American nature--to be nomadic. Even to eat constantly at home becomes tedious and to eat at only one place in college soon grows unbearable. Naturally, therefore, students prefer...
...cubic metres of smoke a minute, hiding objects 30 ft. away. The "smoke projector", for land work, generates fog much faster. Several European navies are now using his methods. Their pacific value lies in spreading smoke blankets over orchards, gardens and fields to prevent the ravages of frost. Radiation from the ground is checked...
...Paris, Jean Laporte ascended 5,535 meters in a hydroplane. He came down because of the extreme cold, in which his face was frost bitten...
...Robert Frost of Amherst College will read and comment on his new book of poems, "New Hampshire", at a meeting of the Modern Language Conference at eight o'clock tonight in the common room of Conant Hall...