Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door was hoisted into place on its lugs and screwed down tight with spanners and mauls. The supporting boom swung over the side, cable squeaked, the sphere ducked under. Cable was paid out at 50 ft. per minute. Log of the dive : 500 ft.: School of silvery squid. 900 ft.: Color of water turquoise black...
...Barton-Beebe bathysphere is a single steel casting 1½-in. thick and 4 ft. 9 in. in diameter. It weighs 5,000 lb. There are three 8-in. windows of fused quartz. The sphere was designed and built by Otis Barton, Harvardman (1922 ), big game hunter, onetime Paris art student. He presented it to the New York Zoological Society. That body and the National Geographic Society sponsored the present expedition...
...critical faculty in the student through the use of books is the dominating theme of Mr. Hoffman's speech. "It is the function of education to make the mind more capable of penetrating judgment. If actuality is avoided and so not understood by the academic erudite, the very sphere in which he lives loses significance; his world becomes impotable and unsubstantial...
...discrimination between the scholar and the athlete, nor has the prominent man benefited to the exclusion of the less well-known individual. Likewise the inclusion of several non-Harvard graduates shows that President Conant's policy of geographical representation is being followed in the proctorial as well as undergraduate sphere...
...principle of "divide et impera" is to guide the economics of the Conant Plan, why should it not be tried in the educational sphere? Is the new and versatile faculty man, intent on making Harvard a national university by developing the talents of the scholar-group of students, to waste his energies, in the age-old way, prodding the "Harvard Community" along. The traditional compromise in lecture hall and class room between the tortoise and the rabbit must be abandoned...