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...Other academicians elected last week: Doctors Henry Bryant Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.; Edwin Broun Fred, University of Wisconsin; Edwin Crawford Kemble, Harvard: Adolph Knopf, Yale; Robert Harry Lowie, University of California; Joseph Haines Moore, Lick Observatory; Robert Lee Moore, Austin, Texas; Herman Joseph Muller, University of Texas, and George Linius Streeter, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore. Xew president: William Wallace Campbell, 69. president of the University of California, director of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton...
Every once in a while there breaks a news story so pregnant with sensation that city editors lick their chops and fervently mutter, "Oh, boy! That's made to order!" The trial of a "lovely society heiress" for the murder of a "noted architect," with a "beautiful nightclub dancer" as star witness for the prosecution would be just such a story. Last week Hearst's New York American was full of it. But the story was literally made to order-an ingenious new circulation stunt...
Smaller Universe. Much starlight is absorbed in space before it reaches the earth. Dr. Piet Van de Kamp, Leander McCormick Observatory, and Dr. Robert Julius Trumpler, Lick Observatory, measured the absorption, concluded that astronomers who have based their measurements of star distances on the assumption that space does not interfere with light, may have overestimated the size of the universe. Cosmic dust, meteors and free-electrons-in-space are possible absorbers of starlight...
...President Emeritus of University of California, Director Emeritus of Lick Observatory. fA friendly exaggeration. Mr. Hull is as yet only the Democratic nominee...
...almost complete contrast are California's past president and president-to-be. During austere, bushy-browed President Campbell's seven years in office many of his hours have been whiled away on top of Mt. Hamilton, 30 mi. southeast of Berkeley, where, as director of Lick Observatory, he spends his time staring into the sky watching stellar orbits, comets, nebulae. For the past 30 years his fame as an authority on solar eclipses has caused him to be selected to lead expeditions into India, Russia, Spain, Australia. If you wanted to communicate with President Campbell, a letter to Lick Observatory...