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Just before Newton Hills, the most punishing part of the distance, Pawson caught Hornby; at Brae Burn he caught plucky little DeGloria, ran past him at the top of a hill. That settled the race. Running shrewdly, keeping to the shelter of trees as much as possible when the chilly wind blew in his face, waving to his parents and fiancee at the finish, Pawson broke the tape in 2 hr. 31 min. 1.6 sec. - no less than 34 sec. below the Olympic marathon record, a full two minutes better than the record for the Boston run. Eighth last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boston Marathon | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Philosophy 3b considers the cosmologies of Lucretius, Plato's Timaeus, and Newton. There is also emphasis on Descartes. In contrasting the Timaeus with Lucretius, Professor Whitehead sketches his own cosmology, which is based largely on the former. In the lectures the modern world is seen through the eyes of probably the most distinguished living philosopher, who also brings to his job such a logical mind as wrote "Principia Mathematics," a thorough knowledge of mathematical physics, and an unshakable conviction that his classes know more than he does. Long after the subject matter of the lectures is forgotten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/26/1933 | See Source »

George Tittmann '36 allowed but five hits and struck out 15 men as the Second Freshman baseball team scored its second straight victory by defeating Waltham High School, 6-3, at Waltham yesterday. The Second Freshmen won from Newton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Second 1936 Nine Wins | 4/22/1933 | See Source »

...revisions so as to include the graduate schools in the system. There will be a letter by John Dos Passos '16 telling what he got as well as what he did not get out of Harvard. Two letters on the value of a college education have been written by Newton D. Baker and Clarence Darrow. The former lauds college education whereas the latter deprecates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARD OF CRITIC PLANS TO PUBLISH ISSUE NEXT WEEK | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

...Issue. Has F. P. C. authority over plants to be built on non-navigable streams under the interstate commerce powers of the Federal Government? Onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, as attorney for Appalachian, argued it had no such power while Huston Thompson, onetime Federal Trade Commissioner, as F. P. C. attorney, argued that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: New River Case | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

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