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Sirs: Enclosed is check for $5 for United China Relief, sent in response to your interesting and touching letter of the 8th inst...
December 15--Mass, Inst. of Tech...
Adolf Hitler, in his speech at Danzig last week (see p. 20), uttered a dark hint that Germany possesses a secret and unique weapon. This threat stirred Professor Archibald M. Low, A.C.G.I., M.I.A.E., F.C.S., F.I.P.I., F.R.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., D.Sc., Ph.D., F. Inst. Arb. to retaliate. Professor Low is a British television pioneer and jack-of-all-science who worked for the British Government in the last war, invented a wireless control gear for torpedoes. After some scientific snickers at death rays and bacteriological bombs, Professor Low growled: "Whether Hitler has any horrors or not to produce at the moment...
...Expenses Council Office Expenses Total $294.65 Supplies: Printing $151.63 Gen. Supplies 30.00 Carbons 1.75 File Cases 62.99 Phone, buzzer, inst. 10.68 257.05 Secretary 37.60 $294.65 Scholarships 990.00 Class Album 100.00 Charities 425.00 Bank Charges (Bad checks, improperly made out, etc.) 22.25 Phillips Brooks House 2000.00 Savings Account in Cambridge Savings Bank 1000.00 $4831.90 Present Bank Balance (Camb. Trust...
...yachting." Last week he was engaged in another kind of recreation which took the form of a very pleasant altercation-not only typically British but typical of the well-ballasted wit of the man of science anywhere-with Professor Edward Neville da Costa Andrade, F. R. S.. F. Inst. P., D. Sc., Quain professor of physics at the University of London, editor for physics of Encyclopedia Britannica, author of The Structure of the Atom, The Atom, The Mechanism of Nature. Professor Andrade lists his recreations as "golf, poetry, collecting old scientific books and useless knowledge...