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...Caleb I. Franklin ’05 was elected first marshal, the equivalent of a senior class president...
ALBERT EINSTEIN REMARKED IN 1932 THAT "THERE IS NOT THE slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable." Thomas Edison thought alternating current would be a waste of time. Franklin Delano Roosevelt once predicted, when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, that airplanes would never be useful in battle against a fleet of ships. There's nothing like the passage of time to make the world's smartest people look like complete idiots. So let's look at a few more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that...
...NASA, many space historians believe, than to Cooper. DIED. MAURICE WILKINS, 88, British Nobel laureate who helped discover the double helix structure of DNA; in London. After a stint on the Manhattan Project during World War II, he turned his attention from physics to biology. With his colleague Rosalind Franklin at King's College in London, he came up with a clear X-ray image of DNA. Within weeks of receiving the photograph, James Watson and Francis Crick built a model of the giant molecule's double spiral structure. Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Watson and Crick...
...making process is much more enjoyable than being sidelined and feeling powerless and depressed." His grandfather, father, twin sister Janice and two brothers may have been country police officers, but it was Brown's role, and arrest along with 1,500 others, in the protest blockade to save the Franklin River in 1982-83 that made him a national name. Still an unpolished orator, he learned then that being terrified of public speaking didn't always matter. "People will listen much more carefully if there's a hint of nervousness in what you're saying," he says...
Both teams emerge now from the dual meet season and begin the run of championships leading up to Heptagonals. The Crimson returns to action this Friday at the New England Championships held on its home-field course in Franklin Park...