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With this judgment of Chicago's famed Physicist Arthur Holly Compton, U.S. scientists and military authorities agree. And this week not 100 but some 1,500 U.S. physicists-one out of every four-are absorbed with problems of defense. Furthermore, Director Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics estimated that research recruits are being inducted at the rate of 100 a month. Steadily the state of physical research in the U.S. is approaching that in Great Britain. There, reported Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, "All research in physics, except on war problems, has ceased" (TIME...
...other six: Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman-Dean Richard Chace Tolman of Cal tech's Graduate School; Commissioner of Patents Conway Peyton Coe; M.I.T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton; Dr. James Bryant Conant; Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...Compton Cup races earlier this month Harvard had a length and a third to spare over the Bengals, but since then reports coming out of Tigertown indicate that the Princeton crew has shown vast improvement. The main reason Princeton is on the Charles again this weekend is to get another shot at the Crimson rather than to face Cornell, whose race with the Tigers and Yale was cancelled last week...
Harvard's Varsity crew stands at the top of the East's rowing ladder, at least for the time being. By virtue of an open-water victory over the previously undefeated Princeton eight in Saturday's Compton Cup Regatta, the Tom Bolles special proved that it is at least the equal of its immediate predecessors and established itself as the leading eight in this part of the country...
Varsity Heavles--Compton Cup with Princeton and M. I. T. at 5:45 o'clock...