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Only 33 miles west of Dallas, Fort Worth, where blustery Publisher Amon G. Carter of the Star-Telegram gives $20 Stetson hats to distinguished guests, prides itself on being a thoroughgoing Western cow town. Boasting itself the Southwest's No. 1 grain and livestock market, Fort Worth likes the virile stench of its stockyards, hates cultured Dallas, of late years has found the excitement of its annual rodeo surpassed by the excitement of watching its fast, rangy Texas Christian University football team play Dallas' fast, rangy Southern Methodists...
...Submerged Canyons of the Continental Shelves" is the subject for the public lecture at 8 o'clock tonight in the institute of Geographical Exploration, Divinity Avenue, by Harlan C. Stetson '23, research associate in Paleontology...
Stating that no man-carrying balloon can ever take scientists above the stratosphere, Dr. Harlan T. Stetson, Harvard University Research Associate in Geophysics in his lecture on "Exploring Beyond the Stratosphere" at the Institute of Geographical Exploration last night stressed the importance of investigating this ionosphere, the most sensitive district for effects of cosmic origin...
Showing that geographical exploration concerns itself with investigating the earth from its crust beneath to the top of the atmosphere, Dr. Stetson said we must advance into these upper regions to discover new facts about the effect of the attraction of the sun and the moor for the earth, and about ultra-violet radiation...
...Stetson concluded, "Important changes in the electric and magnetic characteristics of the atmosphere and the earth in this region of the globe will prove a new incentive for geographical exploration in the future. Extensive journeys already made by cosmic ray specialists have yielded valuable results, and the future will see new tools and equipment accompanying an increasing band of workers into these newer fields of exploration...