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...Passed a House bill awarding the Medal of Honor to Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S. N. retired, who sank the U. S. S. Merrimac to block the harbor of Santiago. Cuba, June 3, 1898; sent it to the President...
...Order of St. Gregory the Great, by Pope Pius; to Psychiatrist Earl Danford Bond,.Philadelphia's $10,000 Bok prize for city service; to James Orr Elton, Anaconda Copper Mining Co. metallurgist, the 1933 James Douglas Medal, for improvements in smelting lead, zinc & silver; to Author Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for heroism in the Spanish-American War; to the University of Chicago's George Frederick & Gladys Henry Dick, the University of Edinburgh 1933 Cameron Prize, for discovering the scarlet fever germ and serum...
Light-Twisted Life. Most people are righthanded. Certain sugars are also "right-handed", in that they twist a beam of polarized light to the right. Maybe, suggested Dr. William Hobson Mills of Cambridge, the dexterity of chemicals and people have a common base. To experiment he projected beams of light through inert solutions. Some of the light was twisted to the right, some to the left. Right turns predominated slightly. This may account for the fact that all living things are essentially dissymmetrical, more right-handed than lefthanded...
...Passed a bill bestowing a Medal of Honor upon Richmond Pearson Hobson for his attempt in 1898 to blockade the Spanish fleet in Santiago harbor by sinking the Merrimac...
...Houses raises a problem which is not now to University administrators. Of the many educational institutions which have experimented, few, if any, have proclaimed student waiting entirely satisfactory. At Harvard, the Business School service has been reasonably successful; the mixed service at the Union, where the Freshmen are given Hobson's choice, is poor. The trend in the University is away from student waiting, and there is every probability that it will eventually be abolished from the Union rather than extended to the Houses...