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...next 15 years he never quite did that, but he became a great committeeman. In time, his perseverance was rewarded with a Rolls-Royce, a fellowship in the Royal Society, even a membership in the Athenaeum. And once, when Albert was deserted at a critical moment by a gifted pupil on whom he largely depended for his theoretical ideas, he actually solved an impossible problem in the synthesis of a nerve gas. It was Albert's greatest triumph-marred only by the misfortune (from Albert's standpoint) that neither side used nerve gas in World...
Austen Lake, Boston Record sports columnist, blamed "organized apathy" on the part of students and an athletic policy controlled by "Wall Street alumni favorable toward crew" for part of the plight of the football team at last night's meeting of the Athenaeum...
After hearing him, the Athenaeum debated and defeated the resolution "that the University should use all necessary methods to obtain a winning football team...
...second meeting of the newly-formed Athenaeum...
...meeting will be held Sunday at 7:45 p.m. in Mallinckrodt MB-9. Austin Lake, sports columnist of the Boston American will present his views, but debate among the members will follow lines decided at the pre-meeting caucus. According to Hugh J. Schwartzburg '54, member of the Athenaeum Board of Governors, a number of members are prepared to defend some sort of subsidation of football players to improve the team...