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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today's field party will study various kinds of rocks in the vicinity of Malden, starting at 1:35 at Faulkner station in Malden, on the Saugus Branch of the Boston and Maine. The station can be reached from Boston by a train leaving North Station at 1:17 o'clock, daylight saving time...
...Semitic museums. A few even might remember having heard rumors of a vague institution known as the University Museum. But it is indeed a difficult task to find men who are in the know about such establishments, officially going under the title of museums, as the Harvard Seismograph Station, the Institute of Geographical Exploration, the Yenching Institute, or the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research...
Farther away from home we find such things as the Harvard Seismograph Station and the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research. The former is located 25 miles north of Cambridge at the Oak Ridge Observatory, while the latter is an almost equal distance in a southerly direction, in Sharon. For those concerned with foraminifera it may be interesting to note that there is a library of 2,000 works about foraminifera at the Cushman Laboratory. Those not concerned with foraminifera are probably glad to learn that the subject is being investigated anyway...
There are still other such institutions in and about Cambridge and a number of distant ones. But by all odds the honor of being most lone wolfish goes to the Boyden Station of the Harvard Observatory in Bloemfontein, South Africa. If we are to believe the bulletins from this spot, the climate is so good that it is only a question of time before the whole University will trek to Bloemfontein...
...broadcasting will again be done by the non-commercial shortwave station W1XAL of Boston, which is entirely devoted to educational and cultural programs and which is financed by private donations and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation...