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Like a beneficent country parson, a tall, portly woman stood in the doorway of an old New England meetinghouse at Pittsfield, Mass. one day last week. There she shook hands with some 500 persons who had come to be her guests at another oldtime Berkshire Festival. The guests were either established musicians or else socially important neighbors from Lenox, Stockbridge, Lee. For a few old friends the hostess stooped from her height (6 ft. 1 in.), endeavored to hear their greetings through the mother-of-pearl earphone she wore clasped to her head. But the guests had plenty to hear...
When the Berkshire woolen mill spinners went on strike at Pittsfield on Friday, Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on chemistry at Harvard marched with the pickets. Accompanying him was his 15 year old son who also had marched on Thursday...
Theatre of last week's demonstration was the high-voltage laboratory on the mezzanine floor of General Electric Co.'s testing plant in Pittsfield, Mass. Ninety-six pyranol-filled capacitators (condensers) were mounted on insulators and ranged three deep in a hollow square. Each row of three capacitators was connected in series, and the inside, middle and outside banks of 32 each were hooked up in parallel. Heavy copper straps converged like spider webs from the square to each of the two spheres in the centre. Ordinary 110-volt, 60-cycle current was stepped up by transformers...
...Pittsfield have been puttering with artificial lightning for 20 years. They have produced 10,000,000 volts (at comparatively low amperage) in a single discharge. Karl Boyer McEachron, 44, designer of the high-amperage apparatus which he demonstrated last week, has been at Pittsfield for twelve years. His spectacular experiments are useful for testing purposes, for studying the destructive effects of natural lightning and means of combating them. When he is not in the laboratory he troops up & down the country lecturing on lightning...
Score--Harvard 33, Bates 0. Touchdowns--Nazro 2, Nevin, Locke, Crocker, Points after touchdown--Wells, Dean, Whitney. Referee, J. E. Keegan, Pittsfield. Umpire, G. H. Lowe, Lafayette. Linesman, T. J. McCabe, Holy Cross. Field judge, A. U. Bratt, Tufts. Time--Four 12-minute periods...