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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edison. Most prized award of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers is the Edison gold medal. Its recipients have included George Westinghouse. Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Robert Andrews Millikan. Last week in Manhattan it was given to tall, grey-haired Charles Felton Scott, 65, native Ohioan, electrical engineering professor in Yale University. In the field of power transmission his work has been noteworthy; professionally renowned is he for the Scott transformer which changes two-phase to three-phase alternating current...
...served with the famed Dover Patrol of the Royal Naval Air Service. He is married to an American, Persis Stevens Wright. The expedition in search of Fawcett was his ninth to South America. Last year the Royal Geographical Society, of which he is a member, gave him the Gill Award in recognition of his explorations. Among his idiosyncrasies: he likes work, likes photographing wild life, likes to pun in print. Other books: Silent Highways of the Jungle, On the Trail of the Unknown...
...important essential of any educational institution is the facility for research. To those who were suffering under the fond illusion that the administration had exhausted every available outlet for new restrictions, the announcement that Harvard will not award a degree to any of her sons who cannot maintain his watery equilibrium, comes as a pleasant indication of the University's continued experimentation in the field of curricular requirements. However, another hurdle more or less in the college race means little to the weary undergraduate after a few years practice dodging the devious man-traps lurking in and about...
Professor Fay lectured here in History 28 the first half of 1929-30, but will sail for Europe next month under an award from the Bureau of International Research of Harvard University and Radcliffe College...
...country have submitted their advertising, making this year's exhibition 25 per cent larger than that of last winter. Only work published between January 1, 1929, and January 1, 1930, is eligible for consideration. On Thursday and Friday, the exhibition will be closed, and the Jury of Award will consider the advertisements and choose the winners of the awards. These will be announced at a dinner in their honor to be held at the Harvard Business School in February...