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Comes May and with it many delightful things, including the Pops. Each year it is a pleasant editorial privilege to welcome the occasion and to urge dancing in the streets in its honor, for here, in the glacial intimacy of Symphony Hall, is an opportunity to appease both the inner and the outer man. On idle evenings, and occasionally on busy evenings, academic footsteps will gravltate towards town, where there awaits food for thoughts and theses...
Besides his attempt to scale Mt. Tsar, Ostheimer expects to make observations regarding the divide fluctuations of Fortress Pass. The Great Divide, which is only 8,000 feet high in this region, causes a variation in the direction of the flow of the glacial streams which makes all the water at times flow toward the Arctic and at other times toward the Pacific. Since these streams serve to distinguish the boundary lines between Alberta and British Columbia, observations, regarding them are desired by the Canadian government. At one time, in fact, the shifting of the courses of these streams...
...whole complexion of the affair altered as Captain Wright testified last week on his own behalf and was cross-examined by Lord Gladstone's attorneys. At the trial Lord and Lady Gladstone sat together, venerable, glacial; and in the visitors' gallery sat famed (though slightly passÉ) dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero; the Rt. Hon. Thomas P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons"; Lady Milner and many another...
...forgotten and the lines of care upon his face seem laughter's wrinkles. Last week he welcomed at Paris his good and amiably-intentioned friend, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary, whose back is like a ramrod and whose monocle is more than glacial. Cordial greetings passed between them. Soon they sat down to discuss the territorial aspirations of Italy, the problems of Rhineland evacuation and many another point which has cropped up since they last met (TIME, Oct. 11). The so august and so friendly statesmen were engaged, last week, in settling the details of their...
...Glacial Stages of the Past: "Taeir Causes and Effects," Professor Mather Geological Lecture Room, Geology...