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...unexpected discovery, however; the work of Sir Ernest Rutherford, Dr. F. W. Aston and others has paved the way for its ready acceptance. Uranium, thorium and radium split up of their own accord. Moreover, many astrophysicists have long believed that the sudden appearance of vast quantities of hydrogen and helium in new stars might be due to an elemental cataclysm of this kind on a gigantic scale...
Professor W. D. Harkins of Chicago has strong evidence that ordinary chlorine is a mixture, and F. W., Aston of Cambridge, England, by an entirely different method, indicates that many other elements are probably likewise composed of atoms of different weights...
...Aston Webb, past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, will give an informal address this morning at 12 o'clock in the large lecture room of Robinson Hall, before the students in the department of Architecture. This address will be open only to men taking courses in architecture. Sir Aston Webb, who has recently received a gold medal from the American Institute of Architects in acknowledgment of his work, will be given a private reception this afternoon by the Boston Society of Architects...
...George, the English amateur champion runner, has again been distinguishing himself, and has once more defeated his plucky little rival Snook, this time over a ten mile course. The contest was the Birchfield annual ten mile race at Aston, on Monday Dec. 24, and George won in the splendid time of 53 minutes 15 seconds, Snook being second, 1,250 yards...
...Dissertation to E. N. Aston, F. J. Stone, C. F. Withington, C. C. Clarke, T. L. Sewall...