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...Anderson evidence is good in its way. To get proof from a different angle, Dr. Millikan will soon send balloons bearing registering instruments to an altitude higher than Professor Piccard's ten miles where atmosphere has less effect on cosmic rays. And Professor Compton (Dr. Millikan was his preceptor at the University of Chicago, taught him how to win a Nobel Prize) will this spring and summer make a world tour of mountain tops lugging machines too heavy for balloons...
...late Robert Louis Stevenson, suave preceptor, warned youths & maidens against taking a literary mate. Like a frenetic footnote to that polished advice comes Grace Hegger Lewis's case-history, Half A Loaf. Divorced from her famed husband Sinclair Lewis six years ago, Authoress Lewis has spent part of the interim preparing to heave her stone, which hits more birds than perhaps she meant...
...Manhattanites the evening before be sails back to England.* Between lectures the Jeanses plan a visit with Lady Jeans's mother, Mrs. Annie Tiffany Mitchell of New London. Fellow guests at the Mitchell home will be Senator & Mrs. Hiram Bingham of New Haven. Senator Bingham was a preceptor in history and and politics at Princeton when when Sir James James was was professor of applied mathematics there. Lady Jeans and Mrs. Bingham are are sisters...
...greatest of Canadian doctors was the late William Osier (1849-1919), who taught at McGill. By grading of the Nobel prize the living Canadians who have contributed most to medicine are Frederick Grant Banting, 38, Professor of Medical Research at the Uni-versity of Toronto, and his preceptor, John James Rickard Macleod, 53, Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto until 1928. Since then Dr. Macleod has returned to his native Scotland to be Regius Professor of Physiology at the University at Aberdeen. They developed insulin...
...high table" which is promised for the Master and tutors. One wonders what place in the social scheme these faculty tables will occupy. Used as a permanent separation in the dining hall the "high table" might, as the CRIMSON has before pointed out, usurp a desirable contact between preceptor and student. But other use of the "high tables" could be made besides one that follows the Oxford-Cambridge idea of segregation of tutors and students. Occasional use of the "high table" as a gathering place of the House resident and non-resident tutors would serve to coordinate the older members...