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Fever therapists are waiting for some industrial physicist to build a tiny radio tube which will emit a wave eight-tenths of a meter (31.2 in.) long at a frequency of 320 million cycles per second. Such radiation would heat only the patient's blood and not affect flesh or bone...
...Technology; after two months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
Contestants for the $200 John Osborne Sargent Prize should hand in their metrical translations of Homer's ninth ode of the fourth book at 20 University Hall by Wednesday, April 1. Undergraduates of Radcliffe and Harvard are eligible for competition, and the translations may be transposed in any meter...
...second time this winter bad luck stalked the mile relay team as a fall and the subsequent bad pass prevented the Crimson quartet from gaining anything better than a fourth in the 1600 meter relay...
Special mention goes to Henry Marcy whose last minute sprint was begun just too late to exchange his second for first place in the 3000-meter steeplechase, and Freshman Mason Fernald who gained a fourth place for himself in the 40 meter hurdles...