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...wide flock to Rochester's School of Medicine & Dentistry, headed by Nobel-Prizewinning Pathologist George Hoyt Whipple, and to Rochester's Eastman School of Music, whose Director is Composer Howard Hanson (Merry Mount). But of the College's 1,100 students, 75% come from within 50 mi. of Rochester, N. Y. More than half are day students who leave their starkly handsome Genesee River campus at 4 p. m. like factory hands at the end of a day's shift. Alumni have groused about the absence of "college spirit," the lacklustre air of extracurricular activities...
...When asked whether she had been trying for a record, she replied: "It would be ridiculous to try for a speed record at this time of year, when it is so warm and muggy. I was just walking for the exercise." From Newport to Boston (73 mi.) her best time was 17 hours. In 1934 she walked 35 miles to call on a friend. Month later, dressed as a Girl Scout, she walked 23 miles to see another. When out for a walk Miss Sears is usually followed by her chauffeur, with Thermos bottle & sandwiches...
...Einstein universe the velocity of light is regarded as a fundamental constant. Ten years ago Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson clocked the velocity of light between two mountains in California, got an average result of 186,284.45 mi. per sec. For further precision he built a mile-long vacuum tube. Before the measurements were complete he died. Grizzled Dr. Francis Gladheim Pease of Mt. Wilson and Fred Pearson, longtime Michelson assistant, carried on. Two years ago they announced that their measurements were showing systematic variations, an astounding situation which raised the question of whether light speed was a constant after...
Last week final results were published in the Year Book of the Carnegie Institution. Average velocity, in four series of measurements over periods of two to five months, was 186,270.75 mi. per sec. Best modern figure for light's speed, this is almost 14 mi. per sec. slower than the results of ten years ago. Inconstancies between individual measurements were ascribed to experimental error or "disturbing influences of unknown origin." But no doubt was expressed that the true velocity of light is indeed a constant constant...
...were autumnal melody ... Ringwood, Dashwood, Robin, Patrona, Pirate, Gadabout. . . Falstaff, Rockaby, Sweetheart, Tireless, Highlander, Pibroch, Chieftan, Crystal, Valkyrie, Beldame, Pickpocket, Tattler, Blackamoor, Dragoon, ... Tipster, Hector, Melodius, Lucifer, Strident, Chorister, Lark, Cherokee, Hurricane, Phoebe, Fanciful, Juno, Linda." Three of Music's puppies, the Cap'n happily named "Do, Re, and Mi." The author evinces an admirable and affectionate knowledge of hounds and fox-hunting...