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...prize for any of their members not over 30 who should write the best technical paper for one of their journals. Thus the engineers' prize somewhat corresponds to the chemists' $1,000 prize for bright young men or women offered this year by Dr. Arthur Comings Langmuir and won by Professor Linus Carl Pauling of California Institute of Technology (TIME...
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...