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Philadelphia's Derhams are three, all sons of the late Joseph J. Derham, a wheelwright and carriage maker who came from Ireland and set himself up on Philadelphia's swank Main Line in 1887 to build victorias, broughams, phaetons and surreys for the Drexels, Pauls and Cassatts. Before long the automobile began to cut into the carriage maker's business. After a haughty but futile effort to ignore the new invention, Joseph J. Derham gave in and adjusted his trade to the times...
...movies were presented by George W. Wheelwright '24, representative of the Polaroid Corporation which is developing light control by polarization, for commercial purposes...
According to Wheelwright, polarization for practical uses is still in the experimental stage. Its principle is to limit the vibrations of light waves to one direction by means of a newly developed acetate composition in which are embedded crystals of microscopic size to act as "optical slots." These "slots" serve to polarize the light...
...thoroughly deliberated. In the first place, does the nature of teaching, being in its higher forms essentially the giving of personal conclusions, allow of any regimentation? Dramatists' have been known to balk at the name of playwright on the grounds that it levels them with the cartwright and the wheelwright. Hence it is doubtful that teachers, every bit as sensitive, will allow themselves to be organized on the plebeian lines of labor...
This issue also contains an appropriate tribute to the late Dean Briggs by Professor Hillyer, and an essay on Henry James and Harvard by John Brooks Wheelwright. Articles like these by older men, lend distinction to The Advocate, and the practice of including them is one that I hope will be continued