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Appointed. Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, 55, famed scientist; to be Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington...
...Smithsonian Institution of Washington, D. C., chose last week a new secretary (i.e., commander-in-chief), Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot. Technically, he is an astrophysicist. To a few laymen, he is known as the man who has spent his adulthood studying the sun. Why? Because he wishes to forecast weather, weeks or months in advance, by discovering what the gases around the sun have to do with its heat radiation; also to find some feasible means of harnessing the sun's energy in man-made machines...
Plans for the new Law School buildings have just been announced by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, architects for the building. The new edifice, which is to be a completion of Langdell Hall, will duplicate the present structure, and in addition will have an extension running off from the completed building towards Massachusetts Avenue. This wing of the building will contain a replica of a court room, with a seating capacity of 500. There will be a new reading room to accommodate 1,000 students, and the capacity of the library stacks will be doubled. For the students and professors...
...Popular actors' clubs in Manhattan are The Lambs and The Friars. Neither is exclusive, or exclusively of the theatre. The Shepherd of the Lambs is Tom Wise; the Abbot of the Friars, George M. Cohan...
...when the radiations enter Earth's heavy atmosphere they are dispersed, feebled and as difficult to detect and measure as a whisper in a hurricane. Star heat is best studied at altitudes where Earth's atmosphere is rare. To rare-aired Mount Wilson, therefore, went Dr. Abbot, where he can introduce starlight reflected from the 100-inch Carnegie Institute sky-reflector into his newest and finest radiometer-an instrument so delicate that a part of it is constructed of flies' wings; an instrument ten times as sensitive as Dr. Abbot's last radiometer, with which...