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...even cancerous tumors. Harvard's Harlow Shapley described four new swarms of star-galaxies or island universes, each galaxy containing billions of stars-a discovery which may bear on the agitated question of whether the all-embracing Universe is expanding or not. Grey old Ernest W. Brown, professor emeritus of mathematics at Yale and a famed authority on the moon, who complacently smoked a pipe in violation of the Society's house rules, reported that the measurements of lunar motion which he started making a half-century ago have recently been rechecked with the help of modern calculating...
Heaping honor upon fame, the International Mark Twain Society has recently made Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, an honorary member. "Copey" will be surrounded in the Society by such famous names as the Honorable Winston Churchill, England's representative, and Andre Maurois, French author...
Roscoe Pound, Dean Emeritus of the Law School, addressed the 32nd annual Acacia Club dinner here Saturday night, comparing present-day educational ideas with those of his own youth...
...music and musicians into test tubes and under microscopes. Today's No. 1 and 2 musical microbe hunters are flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore has spent a lifetime on the beach of music's ocean brooding over, and trying to remedy, the mathematical inaccuracies of long-haired musicians. From spry, 72-year-old Seashore...
...Lawrence Lowell '77, President Emeritus, entered a complaint to Secretary Hull last night on the revocation of his pilot's license by the Federal Department of Commerce and the Massachusetts Bureau of Airways...