Word: second
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Abdian, who last year won second place in the Baldwin Municipal Government Contest, will have his paper submitted to the Executive Board and entered it a national contest where it will be judged along with the winning papers in 19 other colleges. A prize of $500 will be awarded the winner of this second test. C. E. Wyzanski '27 won this contest in 1926. Last year's Harvard contest was won by T. A. McGovern '29, who was just recently appointed Rhodes Scholar at large for the country...
...rotation by mechanical stress, of a light beam in a plane of polarization. The effect is similar to that of double refraction. Straining the medium between the polarizers, which in our case is a celluloid model of the machine we are working on, increases the transmission through the second polarizer and a color scale is produced similar to that produced by the passage of light through a prism. By photographing the display of colors and their form, we can determine the amount of stress applied to the model and the limit of stress which can be applied...
...pound weight--Won by Sexton (Georgetown); Weis (Cornell), second; Steiner (Pennsylvania), third; T. H. Alcock '29, fourth; Worden (Cornell), fifth. Distance...
Freshman medley relay--Won by Pennsylvania; Georgetown, second; Boston College, third; Princeton, fourth; Bowdoin, fifth. Time...
...meeting the attack at center ice and taking its sting before it was near the goal. It is such achievements as this, in the face of dubious odds, that bring home forcibly the fact that the University sport teams are guided by men who know their business. The second trial of hockey strength between the teams will be watched more eagerly because of the proof of the first...