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...Robert Andrew Millikan, famed physicist, first isolated the electron, detected the cosmic pulse that throbs in the solar systems of broad-girthed planets and infinitesimal atoms alike. Like Master Electrician Steinmetz, this man of twinkling blue-grey eyes and sparkling wit knows how to make scientific complexities charming as well as awesome. For weeks past in the North, South, East and West he has lectured to make laymen see the unity of movement and purpose in the cosmos enveloping the universe...
Fifty-nine years ago, Dr. Millikan was born at Morrison, Ill. Later at Oberlin College, he attacked Greek and mathematics with zest, took his first degree, an A. B., at 23. The next year, a graduate student and tutor there, his enthusiasm turned to physics. He pursued it at Columbia, Berlin, Gottingen. From 1902 to 1921 he charmed physics students at the University of Chicago. Since 1921 he has been Director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics at Pasadena, Calif...
...Leekley '27; E. A. Levinson '28; J. S. Liebermann Jr. '28; H. L. Ledish '28; N. W. Lovely '27; R. T. Lyman Jr. '28; Thomas McGovern '29; Alexander Mahlowitz '29; D. H. Marfield '29; E. C. Marget '27; P. W. Mather '29; T. L. Mayhew 27; G. A. Millikan '27 Sumner Moskovitz '27; O. E. Mulliken '27; W. E. Mydans '27; S. B. Myers '29; G. A. Orrok Jr. '27; Brooks Otis '29; J. R. Paine '27; L. J. Phillips '27; Douglass Pillinger '28; Charles Platt Jr. 27; P. J. Quinn '29; Ahraham Raum '29; C. S. Rayment...
...Millikan of California had verified the existence of cosmic rays of great penetration, Dr. Kolhoerster of Germany tracing their source to the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda, where new stars are forming...
...Senior class: Carl Oscar Emamiel Anderson, Prescott Niles Arnold, Dana Converse Backus, Thomas Senior Berry, Gordon Marsh Benedict, Melvin Irving Bernstein, Dwight Wesley Chapman, Jr., David Luther Dickson, Warren Fosket Fair, Stanley Turner Frame, Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, Allan Holske, John Denisor: Houghton, Judah Isaacs, Lester Snow King, Glenn Allen Millikan, Charles Platt Jr. John Robert Richardson, Robert Thornton Smith, Abraham Harold Swirske, Henry Franklin Williams and Charles Edward Wyzanski...