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Director Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), Nobel Prizeman in physics for 1923 (for isolation and measurement of the electron): "I delivered three lectures on the Terry foundation at Yale University, on 'Evolution in Science and Religion.' I first showed the breaking down of what the 19th Century so confidently regarded as a final interpretation of the physical universe, by 20th Century discoveries-radio activity, the inter-convertability of matter and light, the corpuscular theory of radiant energy, etc. Next I showed that while there is always 'something new under...
...hard by the Jungfrau in the Alps. They had dug a pit twelve feet wide and 20 feet deep in the eternal ice of that summit, and lowered into it instruments extremely sensitive to radiant energy. Their procedure closely paralleled experiments conducted during 1923-25 by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), who first buried his instruments at sea level, then flew them far aloft by kites, finally lowering them to a considerable depth in the pure waters of a high-altitude lake.* And their conclusions, announced last week, paralleled Dr. Millikan...
When he announced his "Millikan Rays" to the world last year, Dr. Millikan did not hazard a guess at their source. They seemed to him to be coming at the earth in all directions. In the Swiss report of last week, however, it was stated that the greatest "penetration radiation" had been detected when the pit on Mont Monch yawned directly up at the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda. This observation fitted in with a theory that the Millikan Rays are the result of atoms being disintegrated during the formation of new stars, for the constellations named all contain spiral...
...Millikan will succeed P. M. Herzog '27 as the head of the Liberal Club. The newly elected officers will assume the duties of their position at once and will continue to hold office until the next election shortly after the Mid-Year Examination period...
...Millikan '27 was elected president of the Harvard Liberal Club at the semi-annual elections held last night. R. D. McMullen '27 and J. W. Knedler 2G. were re-elected as secretary and treasurer of the club respectively...