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...recently established with his friend André Hirsch the Rep-Hirsch Fund which awards 10,000 francs annually to the author of the most original contribution to ''astronautics." Russia has her Professor Nikolas Rynin. In the U. S. the only important practicing rocketeers are Dr. Darwin O. Lyon and Professor Goddard. Professor Goddard is now working on experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. under patronage of the Smithsonian Institution and a Guggenheim fund. His magnum opus is a proposed turbine rocket ship by which the exploding gases will drive propellers while the ship is in lower atmospheres, change...
Universal demand for retaining their present staff of coaches and a general desire for an earlier start of practice marked the Yale football team's eleventh annual barn party. Professor William Lyon Phelps was the first to voice the apparently widespread sentiment towards beginning practice about September 1, instead of two weeks later, as is usually done...
...Snyder (B.S.F.) defeated Huntington Thom '35, 9-15, 18-16, 15-11, 15-9; Mason (B.S.F.) defeated T. W. Therndike '35, 15-12, 15-11, 15-12; T. E. Dalton (B.S.F.) defeated S. D. Haskins '35, 15-13, 15-10, 15-9; H. R. Tebbutt (B.S.F.)defeated H. deB. Lyon '35, 15-10, 8-15, 15-12, 15-11; H. R. Withington '35 defeated Foster (B.S.F...
...Board; with the Montclair Yale Bowl, awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his 'Y' in life"; at the nth annual party of the Montclair (N. J.) Yale Club in "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn."* New award: the Montclair Faculty Plate, to English Professor William Lyon Phelps. 66. The Montclair Scholastic Cup of 1931 goes to Rufus S. Day Jr., 19, Yale senior. Phi Beta Kappa, grandson of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice William R. Day, Secretary of State under President McKinley...
During the Liberal administration of Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Minister of Railways Charles Dunning asked Engineer Frederick Palmer (now Sir Frederick, K.C.M.G.) to come over from England and settle the relative merits of Port Nelson v. Fort Churchill. Engineer Palmer, who built the bridge in India over the River Sone, is now 69. He is generally recognized as a world authority on harbors and waterways. He went to Hudson Bay, poked about among the jack-pine and reindeer moss of the two trading posts and finally decided on Fort Churchill. Heavy tides and spring freshets make the 15-mile...