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Murray M. Day, Gustavus Ober, and Brooke Lee of the Princeton, affirmative team vainly advanced the contention that neutrality, when strictly applied, has and will keep a country out of war. Such a policy would allow reciprocal trade with other non-belligerent nations but would cut out all war profits...
...Gustavus Wynne Cook of Philadelphia furnishes a shining example of what a rich businessman can do with his hobbies. On his estate in the Philadelphia suburbs he has the world's most elaborate private astronomical observatory. His 28½-in. telescope, installed in 1932, is the most powerful possessed by an amateur. He has been privileged to call himself "Dr." Cook since last June when the University of Pennsylvania made him Doctor of Science. Gustavus Wynne Cook is president of South Chester Tube Co. and of South Chester Terminal & Warehousing Co., director of a national bank, two trust companies...
...nights from 7 o'clock to n. Dr. I. M. Levitt of Franklin Institute comes out every day to make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type, constructed the motordriven clockwork for his biggest telescope. He has made so many ship models (more than...
...Boylston Chemical Club will hold its first meeting of the year on Wednesday night in Mallincrodt MB-23 at 8:00 o'clock. Dr. Gustavus J. Esselen who is a prominent Boston consulting chemist will be the principal speaker. His subject is "The Chemistry of Cellulose and its Industrial Applications." Professor Grinnell Jones, the unofficial faculty advisor to the club, will take a few minutes to review the history of the club...
...Officer members of the Olympic party disgraced themselves during a performance given for the benefit of the athletes. I refer to the mock marriage and mock trial ... so shocking that many athletes walked out of the social hall. . . . The trial was presided over by Gustavus T. Kirby who so handled the dialog having to do with marital situations that it was open to questionable interpretations and altogether unsuitable for youthful ears...