Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first race comes against Princeton on April 24 in the competition for the Compton Cup, and Harvard hasn't won a race against the Tigers since athletic relations were renewed between the two Colleges. Principal cause for this Tiger streak has been the fact that their crews get onto the water two weeks before Harvard, on the average. But there is no ice now on the Charles, and Bolles is holding his breath. If his crew can get out on the water within the next couple of weeks, and at present that seems very probable, chances of beating Princeton...
Ahead of the first boat lies a tough schedule, opening on April 24 with the Compton Cup Regatta at Princeton. Columbia, Tech, Cornell, Syracuse, Navy, Penn and Yale are also in the offing...
This year's president is one of Princeton's Grand Old Men, Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin. Retiring president is Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, who is also the President of M. I. T. and a brother of Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton...
...valedictory address Karl Taylor Compton gave a discourse on "The Electron: Its Intellectual and Social Significance" in which, as a lesson in the ultimate value of research in pure science, he pointed out that the invisible electron, once a figment in the mind of physics and later the plaything of a few pioneers, is now the ubiquitous slave of mankind...
Varsity Crew: April 24 Princeton and M.I.T. at Princeton (Compton Cup), May 8 Columbia and M.I.T.; 15 Cornell, Syracuse and M.I.T.; 29 Navy and Penn at Philadelphia (Adams Cup); June 25 Yale at New London...