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...their own little rivalries cannot be great. It is true that representatives of the University who often loomerage in the public eye, more than occasionally belong to final clubs, and from this it may be argued that the outside opinion of Harvard is unduly colored by the "undemocratic" stratum. But undergraduates, knowing the University as it is find it difficult to alarmed by the "vagaries of Public opinion; one expects it to be misled by surface appearances in any case; and this is no exception...
...wealthy London family provide the opportunity to waggle head and pen reprovingly. The father, a distinguished lawyer, is a solid stratum of old-fashioned notions. His wife is also old-fashioned to the point of slightly addled brains. Son and daughter are of the newer scope, independent, impudent. They are constantly snooping about in quest of suppressed desires and easily fall under the spell of a fashionable, artificial poet-soul in spats. He preaches hypocrisy as the one great sin of a modern world where other sins have been abolished through epigrams...
...geological problems of the University. An indication of what might be accomplished is given by the recent report on the terranean strata of Harvard Hall. Ground into the original wooden floor, which is occasionally exposed at the surface, there is a hard crystaline composition which defies analysis. This stratum the investigator likens to the Pre-Cambrian, and assumes to be of great antiquity. Upon this base are laid numerous formations which at recurring intervals indicate an accumulation of debris from the most distant regions of the continent. Traces of Colorado gumbo, New Jersey sand, and Ohio clay were identified...
Imbedded in an early stratum were found two bristles. It was assumed that these were the remnants of primitive animals, but a closer investigation led to the theory that they represented an attempt to sweep up the gathering debris. That such an attempt was ever made seems highly unlikely, and the theory, therefore, is probably unsound. Indeed, the report ventures to suggest that no disturbance of the soil structure should ever be permitted. For it seems probable that within a few years the whole mass of substance will have consolidated itself into a firm crust, entirely concealing the original flooring...
...rocket offers great opportunities for making photographs and meteorological records above the 20-30 mile stratum beyond the range of airplanes. Once it gets free of the earth's atmosphere moreover, it would operate still better, as its maximum efficiency is in a vacuum. Dr. Goddard makes no Jules Verne predictions for future interplanetary communication by passenger-carrying cars, but he does definitely aver that there are no insuperable obstacles to this first modest mechanical attempt to reach other worlds than...