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Honored. Mrs. Elias Compton, by an LL. D. from Western College for Women (Oxford, Ohio) for being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams...
...publishing of the recent ruling earlier in the week has aroused considerable comment in the press due to utterances by various university heads, led by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to conform with the ruling, according to Dr. K. T. Compton, President. Dr. D. L. Marsh, president of Boston University, was the only nearby educational leader to issue a statement protesting the order...
...Arthur Holly Compton, the University of Chicago's Nobel Laureate, speeding into the far north after a summer of climbing mountains ibex-wise, reached a point on Hudson Bay only 350 mi. from the North Magnetic Pole in time to take cosmic ray readings during the solar eclipse. His mountain-top observations in many latitudes had led him to suspect that cosmic rays are not pulsations from outer space, as Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan thinks, but streams of electrons probably originating in Earth's atmosphere. The nearer the Equator, he observed, the less was the rays' intensity...
...Millikan was just leaving Pasadena for Winnipeg when he heard about his friendly rival's telegram. From Winnipeg, where he may encounter Dr. Compton, he will fly with an electroscope to as close to the North Magnetic Pole as Royal Canadian Air Corps planes can carry him. There he will make his own cosmic ray readings, then soar eagle-wise southwards to Texas, getting U. S. Army planes after he crosses the border, making electroscopic observations all along...
...Millikan's conception of cosmic rays suits his optimistic temperament. He believes the rays are evidence of the Universe's continual physical regeneration. The Compton view, at first inspection, leaves uncontroverted the evidence that the Universe is blazing to chaos. But there may be alternative interpretations, whether or not the forthcoming Millikan observations of cosmic rays coincide with those just collected by Dr. Compton. Interpretations, twinkled Dr. Millikan last week, "will come up later...