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...Terriers offer Harvard a serious threat in the persons of Captain Fred Garabedian and Fred Hale, who are forwards. These two netted 20 of B. U.'s 23 points Saturday in the season's opener against Clark University, and the remaining three were scored by Al Mathers, the center, Moreland Fort and Fred Alnsiee are Coach John Harmon's guards...
Retired. Philip Hale, 79, dean of U. S. music critics; as critic for the Boston Herald and program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A onetime lawyer, he studied music in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Paris, became an organist and choral conductor, a newspaper critic in 1890. As Herald critic since 1903, he was famed for witty, lucid, learned writing, for his bright Windsor ties and for the green felt bag which he carried almost everywhere...
While all Britain chuckled at how he had outwitted the strict British law against lotteries, Scotland Yard men walked into battlemented Blair Castle for a conference with the sporting Duke. Last week in Bow Street Police Court the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Edward Hale Tindal Atkinson, applied for a summons against the Duke of Atholl for violation of the lotteries act. The judge granted it, calling His Grace before the grimy Bow Street bar next week to answer to the Crown for his wit. Atholl had popular British sympathy last week because everyone knew he had really been trying...
Some of the sun's rays, speeding 93,000,000 mi. in eight minutes to Pasadena, Calif., darted last week into the world's most powerful sun-ray concentrator. Designed by Astronomer George Ellery Hale of Mt. Wilson Observatory, this "sun furnace" is 15 ft. long, has more than 30 lenses. When the rays reached the final focussing point, they were hot enough to melt a steel wire like an icicle in a frying...
Commercial utilization of sunshine, however, is not the same thing as using sunshine to produce high temperatures for scientific research. Hottest heats obtained by any means have been less than 5,000° C. The California Institute of Technology, working with Dr. Hale's new sun furnace, expects to coax from it 6,000°-roughly the surface temperature of the sun itself...