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...Particle. Newest and most mysterious particle in the collection of atomic physics is the little thing discovered in cloud-chambers last spring by Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard and by Dr. Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology (TIME, May 10). It does not con-form-as did the positive electron- to any mathematical predictions. Not much is known about it except that it is heavier than an electron, lighter than a proton, possessed of high penetrating power. In Denver last week Dr. Street announced that it may be positive as well as negative, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: AAAS in Denver | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

Acting on a joint report from its own sub-committee and a swimming team committee, the Student Council last night voted to defer until 1937-38 recommendations pro or con on the status of swimming at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAJOR STATUS OF SWIMMERS WAIVED TO '38 BY COUNCIL | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

...patroness is almost stone deaf. Nevertheless, Paul Hindemith is a god to many a musical modern and his U. S. debut in Washington. D. C. last week-at Patroness Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge's eighth festival of Chamber music in the hall of the Library of Con-gress-was an event of first importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hindemith in Washington | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...display in the Germanic Museum a well-rounded representation of the con-objective works of Vastly Kandinsky, Russian painter who pioneered in revolutionary trend toward post-impressionism during 1909 and 1910. The exhibition, presented by the College Art Association through the assistance of Karl Nierendorf and several other lenders, will be on view until April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

...practical purposes all the arguments pro & con had already been exhausted. With three or four more weeks of hearings in prospect, not the merits of the issue but the behavior of its Senatorial pro-&-antagonists became the greater influence upon its fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Historic Side Show | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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