Word: langmuir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lamented Alexander Duncan Langmuir, Harvard 1931, onetime president of the Harvard Liberal Club: "Nothing but pinching shoes and empty stomachs will ever make American students sit up and realize that they have a government. . . . They are not even well-informed...
Also this year for the first time Dr. Arthur Comings Langmuir, rich Hastings-on-Hudson authority & manufacturer of shellac and glycerine, elder brother and early teacher of General Electric's famed Dr. Irving Langmuir, offered a $1,000 prize for "accomplishment, in America, of outstanding chemical research by a young man or woman preferably working in a college or university." Caltech's young Professor Pauling is the first Langmuir Prize winner...
...Langmuir '31, President of this year's Assembly yielded his chair to Jeanette Dickie of Mt. Holyoke. It is probable that next year's meeting will be held either at Brown, where a new auditorium is being built, or at Smith College...
This afternoon the commission and committee meetings will be held in Founders Hall, to be followed by a meeting of delegation chairmen. Tomorrow morning the whole Assembly will be addressed by President Pendleton of Wellesley, A. D. Langmuir '31, President of the Council, opening the meeting. The general discussion will then begin with the Harvard report on permanent mandates, in which all 26 of the delegation, headed by W. R. Furlong '33 and D. H. Popper '32, will take part. Following reports from other colleges, Professor Elliott will speak, closing the morning meeting...
Eighteen undergraduates were present last night at the organization meeting of the Harvard delegation for the fourth annual Model League of Nations Assembly, to be held Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, at Wellesley College. A. D. Langmuir '31, vice-president of the council for the model assembly, outlined the plans of the assembly for the prospective delegates, emphasizing Harvard's part in the program...