Word: stratton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PORTS AND HAPPY PLACES-Cornelia Stratton Parker-Boni & Liveright ($3.00). In this whimsical, informal travelog of Europe, Mrs. Parker's happy touch flicks the dust off antiquity with ruthless ease. She has not even a bowing acquaintance with any standardized, ladylike itinerary. She and her two young sons and one small daughter "strolled" haphazardly through Europe, abiding in the most out-of-the-way, unusual places, and describing it all in the most out-of-the-way, unusual manner. They lived in a delicious, hand-painted medieval monastery, in a starched Swiss boarding house, in a "rummy little hotel...
...Sanders Theatre: Annual meeting of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; oration by Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; poem by Dr. Francis Greenwood Peabody '69, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Emeritus. Judge Robert Grant '73, of Boston, president of the Harvard Chapter, will preside, Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham '86, will be chaplain...
...President of the Society, Judge Robert Grant '73, will preside over the meeting. Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton Hon, '23, President of M. I. T., will be the orator, while the poet will be Professor Francis Greenwood Peabody...
...lowest expansion ratio of any solid known. A tube of it one yard long, heated to 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit, increased but 1/50 inch in length. Platinum increases 1/3 inch when subjected to the same heat, and copper 3/5 inch. President S.W. Stratton, of M.I. T., former director of the Bureau of Standards, believes that all standards of length will now be made of fused quartz instead of platinum...
...week ago, Bryant and Stratton fell before the Worcester attack, 17 to 3. A veritable deluge of hits came from the Academy's bats, and a Freshman victory this afternoon will depend largely on the ability of Gates or Clifford to baffle the Worcester batsmen. On Wednesday, Fitchburg Normal School was shut out by Coach Delehanty's nine, 10 to 0. This impressive record augurs a hard battle for the Freshman team which will line up with its full strength on the field...