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With everybody's eyes on Congress, everybody's mouth is full of that great organization, the Farm Bloc, which is to rule the country with a rod of straw. In another column we quote Congressman Anderson's refutation of most of the popular misconceptions of the function and purpose of the bloc...
...startling generality that Harvard intellectually is in the stagnant backwaters. "Some who have their doubts", says he, "as they look upon the fresh waters flowing by their college, doors, may remember that a professorship at Harvard is the academic kingdom of heaven for all those who labor with rod and stylus . . . The laurel of respectability will be laid on this volume as it was upon its four predecessors. It is altogether fitting...
Another unfortunate fact is that many persons have gone at the science of geology in a half-hearted manner, either ignoring the education that a geologist must necessarily have in order to interpret conditions rightly, or by patronizing divining rod "experts", pseudo-geologists or fakirs. All university men know that it is not sufficient to call one's self a "geologist" to be one; a pains-taking study is necessary of all the fundamental branches of geology, chemistry, physics and engineering before one can even appreciate the rudiments of petroleum geology. For instance, in the case of the writer, four...
...Harvard Aeronautical Society decided at a meeting held yesterday to start flying within a month. Last summer their aeromarine scaplane was disabled and practically demolished while on a flight from Marblehead to Lake Geroge. The accident was caused by a defective connecting rod. The society is now making arrangements to purchase a new plane of the same type...
Early this week the new Curtis OXX-6 engine for the seaplane owned by the Aero Club will be installed. For about two weeks the plane has not been in commission, as a connecting rod broke while flying over Lynn harbor and carried away part of the crankcase. The new engine arrives in time to allow the club to complete the training for a pilot's license, of the fortunate one of its members who was selected this spring...