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...process was born in 1935 when Basil Albert Adams and Eric Leighton Holmes of the British Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (which has no counterpart in the U.S.) prepared L, phenol-formaldehyde resin which was more useful for its chemical properties than as a plastic. When immersed in "hard" water, which contains salts of calcium, it entered an exchange: it took calcium atoms from the water, replaced them with sodium, thus softened the water...
...Yenching University, near Peiping, was the biggest, richest and best-equipped Christian university in China. Then Jap soldiers seized its $2,500,000 campus, one of the world's loveliest, put its President J. Leighton Stuart in "honorable confinement." Last week, as it has done each autumn since 1920, Yenching began a new semester-in Free China's Chengtu, 2,000 miles from its old campus. The new Yenching, though it had lost its President, had many of the same faculty and students, the same standards of untrammeled scholarship. Educated Chinese were as elated as Frenchmen would have...
...other directors, for one year for Harvard at large, Dean Leighton '17 and Professor Elliot Perkins '23; for M.I.T. at large, Ralph E. Freeman and Carroll L. Wilson; from officers at Harvard, Business School Dean David; from alumni of Harvard, Professor Kenneth E. Murdock '16; from students of M.I.T., William R. Thurston; from Harvard College, John Richardson, Jr. '43, George A. Saxton, Jr. '44, and Francis Parkman...
With most of the 677 new Freshmen crowding the Lowell House Common Room, the ceremonies included speeches by Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, Willard L. Sperry, head of the Divinity School, and Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admissions. Dean Buck, who gave the keynote address, was speaking in the place of President Conant, whose war work prevented him from attending...
...Standard English reading test, required for all yardlings, takes place tomorrow, as does the gathering of new students in New Lecture Hall. At that meeting, Dean Hanford, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University library, and Dean Delmar Leighton, '46's own dean, will be the speakers...