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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the Dramatic Club Monday night, it was decided not to produce Molnar's "Liliom" as recommended by the executive committee, but to continue the Club's policy of producing plays hitherto unproduced in America...
Charles Baskerville was the first American to discover a new element. He established the fact that thorium, hitherto supposed to be an element is really a combination of two substances called by him carolinium after the State of North Carolina and Berzelium after Berzelius a Swedish chemist who discovered thorium nearly a century ago. These new elements were first found by Prof. Baskerville in the monazite sand of North Carolina...
...appointment a week ago of undergraduate committees for each house indicates a desire on the part of the administration for active cooperation from the residents. That this cooperation should be more than nominal is certainly implied in the whole spirit of the Plan. Considerable authority hitherto vested solely in University Hall will find its way through the House Plan to the House Master, who, it is to be expected, will in turn be somewhat influenced by his undergraduate committees...
...music of Brahms has been missing from the regular programs of the Boston Symphony Orchestra so far this year, but the performance of so much of his work this month will more than requite Bostonians for his absence hitherto on concert programs of the orchestra...
...hitherto unknown planet, the ninth of our solar system, has been located beyond Neptune by astronomers at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Harvard College Observatory. It was in search of this planet that Percival Lowell '76, an older brother of President Lowell, spent the last years of his life. As an interesting side-light, it was learned yesterday that the date of the discovery would have been his seventy-fifth birthday...