Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker Dresser Cramer, who twice vainly tried to fly from Illinois over Canada, Greenland and Iceland to Europe (TIME, July 15) was with Explorer Wilkins and Flyer S. Alward Cheesman on Deception Island last week, preparing to attempt a South Pole flight. *Rendered possible by 80 pages of intricate computations and figures of George Washington Littlehales, 69, government hydrographic engineer, comfortably located in Washington. The Littlehales tables are to the avigator what Bowditch's tables are to the navigator. They aided Commander Byrd's North Polar flight...
Teachers' College at Columbia University is the largest training station for schoolteachers in the land (2,799 degrees and diplomas awarded in 1927-28). Last week the Mother Goose dispute cropped up there. Miss Marie Duggan of the Bureau of Educational Service announced...
...Last week a Foundation representative photographed Calvin Coolidge in Northampton for the modern section of this film, which is soon to be released...
...concerts are scheduled for the Harvard Instrumental Clubs over the coming week-end. One will take place at the Roxbury Latin School on Friday, December 13, the other at Williams College on Saturday...
...announcement that Governor Ritchie will speak in Boston during the week has evidently relegated Orthodoxy to a minor position in favor of the more pertinent question of Prohibition. For the good of the people, perhaps, the pernicious influence of the English scholar has been allowed to seep in to keep their attention occupied while the Law and Order brigade amuses itself by presenting a cold shoulder to the Maryland...