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...general discussion of problems of track coaches and a general review of Olympic games experiences will be in order. The coaches also will discuss the new A.A.U. decision to substitute metric distances for the yards and miles system...
...Revolt, The Intercollegiate Socialist Review" has recently appeared here. The magazine is published monthly by The Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy. The sheet is run by a number of undergraduate editors from the various colleges throughout the country. Harvard's representative on the board is J. C. Hall...
This very exclusive Harvard Chapter passed right over two of the first seven ranking men. That June, one was graduate magna cum Iaude, and the other summa cum laude. One of the men entered Harvard Law School and was elected to the Harvard Law Review, than which there is no greater honor. The other man went out into the business world, and became one of the right-hand men to Mr. Gerald Swope...
Street & Smith Publications, Inc., famed for its dominance of the wood-pulp fiction field, last week issued its first smooth-paper, non-fiction magazine, Progress, a 15? monthly review of science, invention, industry. Its editor is Austin C. Lescarboura, onetime managing editor of Scientific American. Prime difference from other popular scientific magazines: Progress is written mainly by authorities, does not tell amateurs how to build gadgets at home. Features of the first issue: more on Life-After-Death by Sir Oliver Lodge; an argument for parachutes for airline passengers by 'Chute-Inventor Floyd Smith; industrial application of intelligence tests...
...Saturday Review of Literature quotes Charles Francis Adams's words to the effect that Boston society is "a boy-and-girl institution," and adds his famous pronouncement: "I have tried Boston socially on all sides; I have summered it and wintered it, tried it drunk and tried it sober; there's nothing in it--save Boston." The Review explains that "the boy-and-girl quality of society in Boston is of course due to the proximity of Harvard College." It comes always as something of a shock when we are given the giftie to see oursels as others...