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...deep-set eyes of Professor Arthur Holly Compton, Presbyterian and Nobel Prize physicist, darkled last week as he told a Manhattan audience that he and his University of Chicago associates will soon begin an intensive effort not only to break the hearts of atoms but also to create new atoms out of rambling electricity. These experiments may well become historic. Among the probers into the tough little universe of the atom, Professor Compton ranks with the most dexterous; and he has the great wealth and equipment of the University of Chicago at command...
...which new members will be elected annually from students in the graduate schools who demonstrate outstanding aptitude for scientific research. On rare occasions undergraduates, who display unusual scientific ability, will also be elected. The formal installation was also attended by representatives from neighboring chapters, including Dr. Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Walter H. Snell, of Brown University. Dr. Jerome Howe of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Dr. J. S. Nicholas of Yale. Besides these men, scientists from points as distant as Arizons. Colorado, and lowa attended the gathering...
...which Professor Harlow Shapley, of the Harvard Observatory, who recently was awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, will preside, and at which Professor G. W. Stewart, national president of the Society of the Sigma Xi, President Lowell, and Dr. K. T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be among the speakers...
...speakers, in addition to the President of the Society, and Presidents Lowell and Compton, will be Professor W. H. Snell of Brown University, Professor J. W. Howe of the Worcester Institute of Technology, and Professor J. S. Nicholas of Yale University...
Dancer Betty Compton (Oh, Kay! and Fifty Million Frenchmen), pretty friend of New York's Mayor Walker; was suddenly and secretly married to one Edward Duryea ("Eddie") Dowling some weeks ago. Last week she returned from the Havana honeymoon estranged from her new husband. They had found each other "incompatible" after two days. She planned a trip to California...