Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Donald Gregg '02, Dr. Edward Stanley Abbot '37, Frederick P. Cabot '90, Dr. William Healy '99, and Henry Sturges Dennison '99 have been elected officers of the Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, it was announced recently...
...played in the dead crater of an African mountain, Mount Brukkaros, near Keetmanshoop, South West Africa. Living there was necessary, for her father's job, and Mr. Greeley's, was to measure the sun's heat every day. That was to enable a Dr. Abbot (Charles Greeley Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and director of its astrophysical observatory) to compare the sun's heat at Mount Brukkaros with its heat at Table Mountain, Cal., and at Montezuma, Chile, where the Institution has other solar stations. Last week Dr. Abbot informed Betty Jean's father...
...solar variations recorded at Mr. Hoover's station have been most valuable in aiding Dr. Abbot to recognize a remarkable periodicity of 25.66 months in the heat given off by the sun. If further observations show this periodicity to be real, meteorologists may be able "to fore- cast at least two years in advance the principal solar changes, and whatever of importance may prove to hang thereon," (Dr. Abbot), viz. crops, icebergs, baseball games...
...Vatican last week announced July 15 as the date for the next long-expected secret consistory for the creation of new Cardinals. The only elevation known in advance was that of Mgr. Idlefonso Schuster, abbot of the Basilica of St. Paul's, Rome, a German-Swiss who will be made Cardinal Archbishop of Milan, a position once held by Pius...
...batting order of the graduate team is H. W. Burns '28, captain of last year's nine. He will be flanked in the other outfield positions by two more former leaders, George Owen '23 and C. L. Todd '27. H. L. Nash '16 at first base and G. E. Abbot '17 complete the quintet of captains who will start the game. The latter never really led a team in action because the year for which he had been chosen captain found the War interrupting intercollegiate athletics and closing his college baseball career...