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According to their coach, Bert Haines, the 150's aren't as yet as strong as last spring's crew, which crossed to England for the Henley race. Vince Bailey heads the nucleus of four returning lettermen, and his shell should win today...
Only four men were lost to the Varsity at graduation last year, leaving a considerable nucleus around which this year's crew can be built. But, the crew was robbed of a good deal of mileage in the early part of the season by the decidedly disagreeable weather that New England has had this spring. Whether the crew regained enough of this during the holidays is yet to be seen in the first race, against Rutgers and M.I. T. on Saturday the twenty-second...
Including all of the recordings of Benny's band and many rare examples of early swing, the gift will form the nucleus of a complete library of popular American music. The maestro has promised to send the Theatre Collection all his future recordings...
Forming the nucleus are five seniors, with whom several of last year's Freshman team have been training. Hank Rieckin '39, stocky defender of the goal last season, has been moved up to forward position, with George Hanford '41 taking his place in front...
This discovery has already brought into play new words, familiar in other fields of science but not so in atomic physics. The splitting of the uranium nucleus is described as a "fission," which, in biology, means division of an organism into two or more parts. The big nucleus has been compared to a "droplet." When a neutron of the right energy strikes it, the new energy is shared by all the components of the nucleus so that the "surface tension" fails to hold it together. Therefore it splits...