Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those less team minded, there is Weld Boat House with its wherries, camps, and singles. Expert Blake Denison is on hand to coach the landlubber. This sport, less popular in the short, often frigid aurum season, comes into its own in the spring...
Squash, under the direction of Jack Harnaby, is one of the top winter sports. The Linden Street courts are open to Freshmen, who may make, any of the four teams. Providing all-around exercise in a relatively short time, squash plays an important part in House athletics...
...present moment it is difficult to find two people who can agree on the ideal of a liberally educated man. This much seems certain--such a man should have catholic tastes and many intellectual interests, and he should be able to distinguish between knowledge and superficial information. In four short years no one can take enough courses to begin to satisfy a really alive and active intellectual curiosity. One of the many things we fail to accomplish in our colleges today is to convince our students that self-education is really possible and can be profitably pursued through life
...Tasmania last week with 225 rubber balloons, large tanks of hydrogen and a short-wave radio receiving set sailed hoary-headed Robert Andrews Millikan, pious physicist of the California Institute of Technology. With him went two brilliant young colleagues: Physicists Henry Victor Neher and William Hayward Pickering. For 18 years Dr. Millikan has carted his balloons through the snowy ranges of the Andes and Rockies, has plunged his flat, metal electroscopes 280 feet into snow-fed California lakes, to measure minute amounts of electricity which may penetrate their surfaces. Purpose of his travels: to learn something about the mysterious cosmic...
...cellophane to keep out light. The two upper shelves in the black football each contain two Geiger counters, or ionization tubes which detect the arrival of cosmic ray particles. On the shelves below the counters are eight radio tubes. Connected to the counters and tubes is a light, compact short-wave radio transmitter with an aerial. When the apparatus is attached to a balloon and sent aloft, passage of the cosmic rays through the Geiger counters will be transmitted to the men on the ground through their short-wave receiving set, will be recorded on a slender tape. Disappearance...