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...announced more than a year ago that he would retire this June as president of Princeton University at the end of 20 years' service, Princeton's board of trustees has sought vainly for a sufficiently distinguished successor. Two months ago University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize physicist, was reported to have declined the post (TIME, March 21). The Princeton trustees have been meeting fortnightly in an effort to agree on some one else. Last week, their quest still unsuccessful, they chose one of their own number to be acting president. He was Edward Dickinson...
...Dunham '25, instructor in physics, will take part in one of the expeditions beings sent to all parts of the world this summer to study cosmic rays under the general direction of professor Compton of the University of Chicago...
...write. He it is who in the end gives the answer to the question "Who did it?", but it is not given before a long investigation by Inspector Faucet, the detective assigned to the case. By means of some tricky work Faucet, ably and amusingly played by Francis Compton, decides that the only person who knows anything about the murder is Bobbie, for that pitiable person was of necessity in the room where the murder took place at the fatal moment. He then proceeds to question him about the murder, despite the fact that his only way of answering...
...Dinners and Long Tables, (the adjective is a concession to ebullient Americans), have received little attention or publicity from those not connected with Winthrop. It is with some surprise that one reads the list of speakers that have been the guests of the House during the year, Lowell, Frankfurter, Compton, Sir Herbert Ames, Williams, Flexner, Admiral Sims, Briggs, Edsall are some of the resounding names that form a garland for John Winthrop. It is quite the most imposing group that has been collected. Every Thursday there is a House Dinner at six after which there are occasional speakers, and twice...
...Pulitzer Prize); Playwrights Lynn Riggs (Green Grow the Lilacs) and Paul Eliot Green (The House of Connelly); Walter Francis White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch); Linus Carl Pauling, Langmuir Prize-winner (scientific research); Arthur Holly Compton. Nobel Prizewinner...