New Britain herald., 1927-01-22

versation, corrected him. "Vice Chancellor Weekes?" "Yes. that is it."
 Are you there?" "Yes, I'm there." All the earth nows the univer- sity of Cambridge is there" respond ed Dr. Lowell, "the great teacher of sciences venerable but forever young. It is her daughter, now all most 300 years old, who speaks 10 you by this latest exploit of science. Tn. daughter has never ceased and never will cease to draw vigor from the source that gave her birth. She sends you her tribute to homage and affection"
 .. Another Good Giggle ! The listeners at the two-score of receivers in the directors room rock ed with silent laughter during an- other conversation. An American woman in England has asked per mission to speak to Dr. Lowell. i President Lowell?" the asked. : "Yes."
 q can hear you perfectly" i "Yes.'
 , II am sitting right next to a Har- yard (pronounced Hawvard) man." "Yes."
 Isn't this perfectly wonderfully
 "Yes, goodbye"
 | President Jones' Talk.
 President Jones in the talk with | Colonel Shreeve, an English tele- phone official. at Cambridge, Eng land, which initiated the new serv- l ice from Boston, said Half cen- tury ago Alexander Graham Bell, a son of Great Britain, who adopted this city as home, brought forth here the great invention that has speeded the spoken word through space. From the windows of this room one can all but see the garret where the telephone was born. These years have been years of accom- plishment by Bells successors until at length the telephone and the ocean and today New England and Old England are to inaugurate a service which we hope will bind more closely the two great English 1 speaking nations"
 President Lowell also said in his message: Tn the year that Sir Isaac | Newton was born, Harvard graduat- ed her first class. Neither fact was much noted at the time, but each meant much. We know not what the 1 future has in store. But we work in the faith that the future will be better than the past; that the inven- tions which shorten time will lessen distance, bring our people nearer, and foster harmony with all man. kind"
 pr. Weekes' Response.
 The Rev. Dr. Weekes responded: T thank you on behalf of the Uni versity of Cambridge. We Cambridge men recall with pride the fact that Harvard college received its name from John Harvard. a member Of Immanuel college in this university, nearly 300 years ago.
 There must be always a power full bond of sympathy between in stitutions which share the same ideals such as the promotion or learning and the search for truth. It is therefore fitting that one of the earliest communications by trans Atlantic telephone should come from Harvard to Cambridge.'
 Moran Opens Circuit.
 To President Moran of the South ern New England Telephone com- pany with headquarters at New Ha- ven, Conn.,, fell the honor as the last formal speaker to declare the circuit opened for business to all points in New England.
 Conversations not on the program were chats President Lowell enjoyed with several Cambridge professors whom he had met during a trip abroad a year ago. The weather. as usual, was the conversational ground on which each person ventured first.
 pr. Giles, of Immanuel college, said to President Lowell, There Is snow on the ground in Cambridge, old England. Have you 1t in your Cam bridge?"
 Cambridge Is All Wet
 Unfortunately not was the re- ply, .the rains descended and the floods came and now Cambridge is all wet"
 Sir Ernest Rutherford and pr. Lowell recalled their meeting in the Trinity combination rooms year ago. The wives of several profess sors then spoke briefly with Presi- den Lowell. One, Mrs. Curtis. said she was to visit America next autumn and President Lowell im- mediately expressed a hope that they might meet.
 The president of Harvard was again gallant when Colonel Shreeve said all at the Cambridge office had spoken.
 That is too bad" said President Lowell.
 As explained later by telephone engineer the Boston and Cambridge conversations were merely an ex- tension of the system employed in the first trans Atlantic telephony between New York and London. Boston was not cut in; toll line to New York simply forged another link in the chain, which stretched from New York to Rocky Point, L. l., by telephone wires thence by radio 10 England, again telephone wires to London and Cambridge. On the return, the route was varied by radio reception at Houlton. Me, and thence by telephone lines to New York and Boston.