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Donald S. Bridgman of American Telephone & Telegraph: The one big reason the Bell System is not taking on any college men at this time is because the reserve of young men which we did not need in 1929 and which we took on was sufficient for about ten years...
Other arts & sciences aces: Harlow Shapley, 48 (astronomy), Charles Hall Grandgent, 71 (Romance languages), Percy Williams Bridgman, 51 (physics), Kirtley Fletcher Mather, 45 (geology), last week named director of the Summer School...
...Manhattan, the 117-year-old American Bible Society celebrated a century of service to China. Vice President John R. Mott recalled that in 1833 the Society sent $3,000 to Dr. Elijah C. Bridgman, first U. S. Protestant missionary to China, to print scriptures in Chinese. Since then the Society has spent $2,897,383 distributing nearly 70,000,000 volumes of scripture in China...
...distinguished scientists from all over the country looked on, Dr. Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and chairman of the Comstock Fund Committee, presented Professor Bridgman with a gift of $2,500, given as a recognition of his investigations into the electrical constitution of matter. The prize is awarded "for the most important discovery or investigation in electricity, magnetism, or radiant energy, or to aid investigation in these fields...
...awarding the prize, Dr. Mason lauded Professor Bridgman as a man who has served the broad field of science in a most significant way. Referring to Professor Bridgman's scientific and philosophical writings, Dr. Mason stated that "such contributions could be made only by the rare person who is at the same time a gifted experimenter, an able theorist, and a sensible...