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...Rays. Sir William Crookes found, when he passed an electric current through an air-exhausted glass vessel, that not only X-rays were formed (by the impact of the electrons upon the electrodes) but also other rays, composed of streams of electricity from the negative electrode, or cathode. His voltages were weak, however, and his tube clumsy. He was never able to ascertain much about these "cathode rays" because he could not get them outside their glass container to experiment with them...
...Coolidge Tube. After receiving his gold medal last week, Dr. Coolidge brought out upon the platform an astonishing tangle of insulators, wires, supports, switches, a huge induction coil-equipment for supplying 350,000 volts. In his hand he held, a glass vessel, five feet long, bulging in the middle. This was a vacuum tube, made portable so that it could be attached to an exhaustion pump in any laboratory. Into one neck ran the usual filaments to conduct electric current. These filaments ended in electrodes, of which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing...
...program a satisfactory physical examination will be required. An annual physical examination, preferably at the beginning of the academic year, will be held for the enrolled students. Vaccinations for typhoid fever and smallpox are required before the student is admitted to a training camp or to a naval vessel for a cruise. These may be accepted at the time of the physical examination for enrollment in the program and may be made by the examining surgeon...
...fortnight ago devout peasants, bourgeois, knelt for 100 miles on both low banks of the river between Warsaw and Rostkow, Poland. On a vessel proceeding slowly up the stream to the Catholic convention at Warsaw were two golden shrines encased in oaken caskets about which 200 priests busied themselves in continuous devotion. One shrine contained many bones of Stanislas Kostka, patron saint of Poland's youth. The other shrine housed his remaining bones which were presented to the Catholic Church at Zakroczyn, where the saint's uncle was a onetime governor...
...relieved from duty, began a 16-hour sleep in a bed with sheets and a pillow, the newspapers of the world were thundering the news of his rescue, telling of his service record, of his famous naval forebears. They told about the John Rodgers of England who commanded the vessel that rescued Alexander Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe) from the Island of Juan Fernandez. They told of the buff-and-blue John Rodgers, lieutenant on the frigate, later Commander Rodgers. They pointed out that at no time since the last British gun boomed across Lake Erie has the Navy been without...