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Professor Friederich von der Leyden, Kuno-Francke Professor for 1931-32, will lecture today at 4 o'clock in the large lecture room of the Fogg...
Washington last week caught up with Leyden, Berlin and Toronto in the matter of liquefying helium (after hydrogen most volatile of gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless...
Joyce Cornvelt, South African Dutch girl, came back to Holland when her father's death left her an orphan. But the Leyden Cornvelts did not take to her very kindly. She was glad to pay a visit to the English branch of the family. The London Cornvelts were completely Anglicized and quite prosperous; they treated her like the country cousin she was, but Joyce preferred them to the Leydeners. That was in 1908, when the question of woman's suffrage in England had already begun to burn. The Cornvelts were for it, but in a nice way; nobody...
...caustic when it comes to describing a family anniversary, Novelist Van Ammers-Kuller in her feminist vein gets almost committee-womanish. She started to write before she was 20, quit when she married, began again when her two boys were safe in school, her husband director of the Leyden gas works. Other translated books: Tantalus, The House of Joy, Jenny Heysten's Career...
...will be held in the first week in September in 1932, will attract more than 150 astronomers from 14 different countries, as well as many American astronomical authorities. This is the fourth meeting of the Union, which met in Rome in 1922, in Cambridge, England, in 1925, and in Leyden in 1928. The Union is made up of 27 international commissions who are doing special research work in various fields, and nine members of the Harvard Observatory staff are serving on 11 of these research bodies...