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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago a promising young physicist from the University of California, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, left his sunny campus and the ramshackle old building in which he was working, traveled eastward across the U. S. and across the Atlantic to attend a European scientific conference in Brussels. He was the only U. S. scientist invited. He had invented and was already making formidable use of a curious and powerful atomic weapon-a "cyclotron" that imparted great speeds to projectiles for smashing atoms by whirling them around in a strong magnetic field...
...each year it takes to run Northwestern's Traffic School, the automobile industry supplies $25,000; the Kemper Foundation (insurance) $10,000; Northwestern University $5,000 and campus quarters; the balance comes from the International Association of Chiefs of Police whose safety division is also supported by the motor industry. Kreml, still an active lieutenant on the Evanston force, is permanently detailed on professor's salary to the school. Long abandoned is the motorcycle; Lieutenant Kreml drives a Terraplane to school through the streets he helped make safe...
...Brooklyn College moved into a new $6,000,000 home in Flatbush-a 42-acre campus and five new buildings, academic, science, library, gymnasium, power plant -built by the city...
...president and an administrative committee of board members. City has a group of Gothic buildings on Washington Heights and a 16-story business school downtown. Hunter is scattered among its main centre at 68th St. and Lexington Ave., a midtown office building and a new campus next to a reservoir at the farthest limits of The Bronx. Brooklyn has just moved out of five rented, jampacked office buildings around Borough Hall. Queens starts in a group of buildings, once a reform school for truant youngsters, in Flushing...
Though the faculty is large and well-paid (up to $9,600 for a full professor), it boasts few big names. Outstanding are Short Story Editor Blanche Colton Williams, Philosophers Harry Allen Overstreet and Morris Raphael Cohen, Artist Joseph Cummings Chase. Campus life such as exists in private and State universities is lacking, but City College is trying to supply this with a house plan, Hunter with teacher-student teas...