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President Lowell and President Compton of M.I.T. will be the honorary chairman and honorary vice-chairman respectively of the local committee. Dr. Samuel C. Prescott, of M.I.T., will be the acting chairman, Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, the vice-chairman, Professor A.L. Townsend, of M.I.T., the secretary, while Henry L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of Harvard, will act as treasurer...
...last week an airplane slipped in to a landing at "Round Hill," the South Dartmouth, Mass, estate of Hetty Green's stamp-collecting, air-minded son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green. It taxied up close to a capacious airship dock, and out of it stepped President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice President Vannevar Bush of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
After a quick inspection Dr. Compton boomed: "Perhaps not all of you understand that this is the first test of the Van de Graaff electrostatic generator as a complete machine. . . . Up to the time Dr. Van de Graaff built his small laboratory model [at Princeton] which developed more than 1,000,000 volts [TIME, Nov. 16, 1931], the highest direct current ever attained by man was about 800,000 volts. With this big generator we hope tonight to reach several million volts...
...Compton turned to a dark, heavy-chinned young man standing quietly at his side. Robert J. Van de Graaff was born in Alabama 32 years ago, won a Rhodes scholarship, became a National Research Fellow at Princeton, designed and built his big generator as an M. I. T. research associate...
...ready to start, Dr. Van de Graaff?" "I believe everything is ready, Dr. Compton...