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...mental development, and helps to educate the individual to a better plain of life where the brain has subconsciously received its natural selection of concentration to a certain field of science or art. Then TIME becomes obtruse, because it obliterates the mental organs and acts as an individual weed, holding them back from their natural field by its various branches of thought treated with a minor foundation...
...three searches, they had not found the "plains and meadows" of sargassum weed commonly reported as forming the Sargasso Sea (TIME, July 20) east of the West Indies. Small, shallow patches of the weed were encountered, and these teemed with marine life. "The Humboldt "Current is gone . . . is extinct.''* Nowhere had they encountered the sweep of icy water that flows up along the west coast of South America from the Antarctic. Volcanic disturbances, earthquakes, were blamed for some vast change in Pacific bathygraphy...
...expanse of ocean bounded roughly by 25° and 30° N. and 38° and 60° W., which currents make a back-water accumulating flotsam. The masses and banks of sargassum weed impeded Columbus for a fortnight on his first voyage to the New World (September, 1492). Improbable tales are told of ships embedded permanently; of seamonsters that make the spot their home. Smaller sargassum drifts are found north of Hawaii, southeast of New Zealand, southwest of Australia...
...Theatregoers Club announced recently the election of officers for the year 1925-26. Eliot Stuart Enneking Long '26 of Cambridge was elected President; Kingsland Deeming Weed '27 of Burlington, Vermont, Vice President: Clarence Hugo Mowen '26 of Plainsfield, N. J., Secretary; Jackson KemperD ering Jr. '27 of Lake Villa, III., Treasurer; and Arthur Leonard Phinney Jr. '27 of West Medford, Chairman of Dramatic Criticism...
Richard S. Aldrich '25, former President of the Harvard Dramatic Club, is serving for the second time as Business Manager. Ross Wilkins '26 who was Head Electrician last summer is to be Stage Manager this summer. A. Rogers Weed '25 is to be Property Manager, R. H. L. Skinner '22, who was with John Barrymore in "Hamlet", is again to be with the Players. Randal S. Burrell '24, another former President of the Harvard Dramatic Club, is to be Advance Agent...