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...England Meet will be held at Northampton on May 9. Colleges which will take part include Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Amherst, Norwich, and Middlebury. With six newly licensed private pilots, the Crimson fliers have high hopes of winning the meet. The Club has flown over 350 hours already this year...
...Smith declined the appointment of President Coolidge as U. S. Commissioner of Education. He has always been an objector to politics in education, and has led drives against slang and immoral movies. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Maine, Bates College, Bowdoin College, Rhode Island State, and Norwich University...
...American Association of Variable Star Observers, which now has 400 members in many parts of the world, was founded in 1911 by William T. Olcott, of Norwich, Connecticutt, and by the late Edward C. Pichering of the Observatory...
Angry, desperately sincere, perfectly aware that the overwhelming weight of opinion was against him, a distinguished 69-year-old zoologist glared at his colleagues, raised his voice, bounced up & down on his heels last week at the British Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Norwich. It was just a century ago that Charles Robert Darwin, cruising in the Beagle, landed on the Galapagos Islands where his theories of organic evolution, transformation of species and natural selection began to take definite shape. Vastly irked last week was Dr. Ernest William MacBride, longtime professor of zoology at London...
...director of the Bank of England, chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, engaged in a spirited, if indirect, debate with Sir James Jeans. Sir Josiah contended in effect that science was causing too much technological unemployment, had better take a holiday (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). This year at Norwich the same Sir Josiah was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which he has been delivering elsewhere lately on the dark lining behind...