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...delivery of Cornell University's Messenger Lectures for 1934. Besides his ''Expanding Universe" talk he gave Chicago, while he was there, his more metaphysical lecture, "Science and Experience." He dined with President & Mrs. Hutchins, met a few socialites, congratulated his fellow-scientist Dr. Arthur Holly Compton on the latter's appointment, announced from London last week, as next year's visiting professor at Oxford in the chair endowed by the late Cameraman George Eastman. He found time to motor out and visit his old friend Director Otto Struve of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams...
...years and the accredited proponent of matter's electrical structure is the captain of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, ist Baron Rutherford. The two great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France's No. 1 team of subatomic investigators is a devoted, captainless couple: Irene Curie-Joliot and Jean Frédéric Joliot, daughter and son-in-law of Marie Curie...
Baker, Dr. Karl T. Compton, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. George W. Lewis, Director of Aeronautical Research, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Clarence D. Chamberlain, Trans-Atlantic flier; James H. Doolittle, speed flier; and Edgar S. Gorrell, President, Stutz Motor...
With revised boatings as the result of daily practice sessions during the vacation the Varsity Crews will resume their activity this afternoon. Coach Whiteside has made an almost definite choice of the men who will row against Princeton and M.I.T. in the Compton Cup Races on May 9. Whiteside is facing the same problem that Joe Stubbs faced in hockey this winter. A champion crew has graduated leaving only one veteran and five members of the present boat are Sophomores. It is the problem of the coach to build for next year when the positions...
Professor Hocking will introduce William A. Neilson '98, president of Smith College and national president of the institute, who will preside. Other speakers will be Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T.; Miss Ada L. Comstock, president of Radcliffe College, and Henry W. L. Dana...