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...trees, planted years ago by an industrious pioneer, now rose up to thwart these air pioneers. Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters of a shallow duck pond, wherein the giant's beak stuck. Its tail completed...
...Tuesday a group of Law School professors headed by Dean Roscoe Pond Hon, '20 dispatched to Governor Fuller a petition requesting the appointment of a committee to investigate further the case of Sacco and Vanzetti. The following article was written especially for the Crimson by F. H. Bohlen, Langdell Professor of Law, who explains the true function of a committee such as the one whose creation is advocated...
...automobile the simplest route is through Brookline Village to the Parkway; thence to Pond Street just beyond Jamaica Pond. From there one should proceed through Pond, Newton, and Grove Streets, to South Street...
Laymen despaired, but the researchers plodded ahead with tasks which very much resembled the work done nowadays by government surveyors. The continent is outlined; its lakes, rivers, mountain ranges, state and county boundaries are mapped. But here remains a pond, a creek, the slope and extent of a watershed, the soil character of an unsettled valley, whose position and specifications need determining...
Harvard can hardly add posthumous praise to that which Professor Sargent's unassuming services in the few hundred acres beyond Jamaica Pond have already won him, even from across the Atlantic. He lived to see his labours reap their reward. Harvard can but regret his death and be proud of his life...