Word: beta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wind & Rain. To make sure it was not jumping at sensational conclusions, Eastman analyzed the strawboard. Chemists cut out bits of it which fogged X-ray film, and burned them. The ashes were strongly radioactive, shooting out beta rays (streams of electrons). They gave out no alpha rays (helium nuclei), thus proving that they were not the naturally radioactive elements: radium, uranium, or thorium. The only remaining possibility was that, the guilty particles came from the atomic bomb, were carried to the Middle West by the wind, and washed down by the rain. Six months after the explosion, they were...
...real leaders. Nor does escapism befit those who prepare for leadership. That is why students now seeking to prepare for a part in world affairs, greater in number than ever before, still look hopefully to the future. That is why they scornfully deny the charge of the Phi Beta Kappa speaker at Sanders Theatre yesterday that "in war our young manhood and womanhood was not afraid of dying, but strangely now it shrinks from living," yet echo enthusiastically his message: "There is yet time for valour...
With the announcement yesterday that W. H. Auden, the English bard, will be the Poet at the Phi Beta Kappa commencement exercises, while Byron Price, well-known journalist, will be the Orator, plans for the first post-war commencement began to take on the promised air of pre-war dignity...
...Beta Kappa exercises will be held on the morning of June 3, and will open the four-day commencement program for the graduation of 263 students...
Besides Phi Beta Kappa's public exercises starting off the week, Monday will see a dinner in honor of George H. Chase '96, former Dean of the University and member of the 50-year class, followed by a business meeting in Harvard Hall at 8 o'clock to discuss a proposed World War II Memorial...