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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entered the Paris Observatory, he had already written a volume on cosmography. With Aeronaut Godard he ascended in a balloon to observe the heavens, wrote his researches in books that surpassed in popularity the works of Anatole France, Pierre Loti. He founded the French Astronomical Society, edited a monthly review, L'Astronomie. In the War of 1870, he served France, spying upon the Prussian troops with his long telescope. An admirer, one M. Meret, presented him with a country place at Juvisy, where he built an observatory, passed his time peering at the planet Mars and collecting ghost stories...
...Lawrence's work and field. "He has written on 'The Life of Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Tragedian,' and on other theatrical figures, his chief volume being 'The Elizabethan Playhouse and other Studies,' published in 1912 and 1913. Since then important papers of his have appeared in the Modern Language Review, Studies in Philology, the Fortnightly Review, and in a considerable number of other periodicals. Mr. Lawrence has no academic position, but it a private and independent scholar, of a type which is but too rare in this country...
Brown's part in "Laugh It Off" was chiefly featured by his songs. P. M. Hollister '13 said in a review of the production written for the CRIMSON that the show possessed "a hero with an extraordinarily fine voice: M. L. Brown '27, a graduate of the Cathedral Choir School." Eddie Cantor, speaking of the show said, "The music is great and several of the songs may be hits. It is the best non-professional production I have ever seen...
...following article, entitled "American Aboriginal Documents," is a review of the official report of the Abyssinlan University's excavations which have been recently carried on at Cambridge, Newhaven, and Princeton, in North America. Ruins have been found which are believed to date back to the year 2000 A.D., or even earlier...
...large training school of physical culture in connection with the prevalent totalistic religion (see Report under Bunker, Tiger). This is an interesting example of the new light shed on the social history of Neotribal man by the thorough researches of the best critical brains of today; but this short review can only indicate those results which will necessitate a sweeping revision of our views on outstanding problems of American history. They affect three distinct periods...