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Alumni Publications

June 1929
Books
Alumni Publications
June 1929

The value of this section of the magazine would be greatly enhanced if all members of the alumni body and facultywould send in to Harold G. Rugg, literary editor, announcements of all their publications. It is especially desirable toreceive announcements of pamphlets and magazine articles. If copies of these are sent to the literary editor they willbe placed in the special College Library collection.

Sidney L. Gulick '83 is one of the contributors to "We Believe in Immortality, Affirmations by one hundred men and Women," edited by Sydney Strong, published by Coward McCann, New York, 1929

Due to an oversight, the review of the Dark Island by Gene Markey '18 in the April issue OF the MAGAZINE was not credited to Professor K. A. Robinson.

Volumes 1 and 2 and supplement of volume 1 of "Collected Papers from the Institute for Biological Research of Johns Hopkins University," Dr. Raymond Pearl '99, director, has just been published. Of these collected papers from the Institute one hundred copies only are issued, each of which is signed by the director. A great many of the papers of these volumes are by Dr. Pearl alone, or by Dr. Pearl in collaboration with others.

The April issue of Airway Age contains an article, "The Modem Flight School," by Lt. Barrett Studley '16, U. S. N.

"Word and Wind Talk," a group of four poems by Marshall Schacht '27, appears in the May issue of Poetry.

"The Petrography of the Irasburg Conglomerate" and "The Geology and Petrography of Reading, Cavendish, Baltimore and Chester, Vermont," by Professor C. H. Richardson '92, of Syracuse University, have been issued as reprints from the Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Vermont State Geologist.

"A Leaf from the Life of a Farmer's Boy Ninety Years Ago" is the leading article in Old-Time New England for January, 1929. The writer, George Jotham Cummings '69, gives a vivid picture of life on a New Hampshire farm in the '40s and 'sos of the last century. Mr. Cummings, now living at the age of 90, began his boyhood in Groton.