Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affirmative proposed hazing, in accordance with the Delta Alpha Plan used at Dartmouth, and pointed out that there was class hazing rather than-individual hazing. The negative contended that this would tend toward the old-fashioned forms with their objectionable features, particularly the risk of injury to the men, and would bring unfavorable publicity to the University. They further contended that hazing would not tend to create the sincere lasting friendship and the true college spirit which is fostered by the Harvard tradition of personal liberty. The judges awarded the negative a unanimous decision...
...Scientists have already succeeded in changing nitrogen into hydrogen by the action of alpha particles. This feat was accomplished by Rutherford some time ago. Another investigator has reported a change of tungsten into helium at a very high temperature, but scientists in general consider his results as unconfirmed. The work of Rutherford has been duplicated by several other investigators and his transmutation of nitrogen into hydrogen is accepted as a fact...
...which crowded the New Lecture Hall to capacity last night, Dr. N. F. Hall G. '15, Professor Zechariah Chafee Jr. L. '13, and Professor M. O. Hudson L. '10, gave a symposium on "The Next War." The affair was given under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of Gamma Alpha, the national scientific society...
...University, will preside at a symposium on "The Next War", which will be given in the New Lecture Hall on Tuesday evening, November 18, at 8 o'clock. This symposium, the first to be held this year at the University, has been arranged by the University branch of Gamma Alpha, the national scientific society. "The Next War" will be discussed from three angles, the three speeches being as follows: "Science in the War", "Conscription on Thought in War", and "The Stacking of the Cards...
With the decadence of classical learning, Greek-letter fraternities at Harvard are fast going out of fashion. Last year the Falcon Club changed its name from Lambda Chi Alpha to its present name. Alpha Phi Sigma is following suit, and has given itself a thoroughly English name, the Trident Club. In changing its name, the Trident Club is making no attempt to change its status...