Word: herschel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ching-Yun Hsiao, a graduate student in the Engineering School, and William Eugene Billings '31, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, have been awarded the Clemens Herschel Prize in Hydraulics...
...Columbus, Ind., Herschel Golden secured a divorce from Mrs. Golden, having accused her of misconduct with one Tunis Quick...
Members of the Production Committee as announced yesterday are as follows: D. A. Nathans '30, production manager: H. C. Freedman '30, assistant manager: R. J. Strauss '32, stage manager: Bernice Tobias, advertising manager: Herschel Yeslawsky, Ruth Leventhal, subscription managers: Celia Stein, publicity manager: L. W. Rubenstein '30, art director: Eva Alpert, assistant: Rella Resnick, properties: Estelle Lowenstein, patronesses: Rosa Landan, costumes...
Naming the New Planet is a problem. When Herschel discovered Uranus he called it Georgium Siditis after King George III of England. Others suggested Herschel. Both names raised an academic row. The quarrel was resolved by choosing Uranus, the Greek personification of the Heavens, husband of Gaea (Earth), father of the Cyclops, Titans and Furies...
...pictures. Mercury's represents the Caduceus, or head with winged cap; Venus' a looking glass; the Earths its equator and a meridian; Mars', a shield and spear, or a warrior's head with helmet and plume; Jupiter's an eagle; Saturn's a scythe or sickle; Uranus' H for Herschel. with a planet suspended from the crossbar; Neptune's the trident. The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier. That sign might stand for the new planet as a recognition of Percival Lowell. Or Harvard's shield might be chosen...