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Under the auspices of the Harvard Chapter of Sigma Xi, Dr. Irving Langmuir, of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company will give a public lecture today on "Films Consisting of One or More Layers of Molecules" at 8.15 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People gave him its Spingarn Medal as the outstanding Negro of 1930. Howard University made him a Master of Arts. From North Carolina State College of Agriculture & Engineering and Lincoln University he received Doctorates of Dramatic Literature. Boston University presented him its Sigma Key. He was asked to speak at Rotary Clubs, to colleges and congregations wherever the show went, and his most prized possession is the Bible from the Clergy Club of New York, with the names of all its members inscribed. Governors of States shook his hand as, like an ancient...
...societies which exist to bestow high accolade on U. S. scholars, most illustrious are Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, which enrolls honor students of all kinds; Tau Beta Pi (1885) and Sigma Xi (1886) which respectively honor engineers and scientists. Sigma Delta Chi, established in 1909 for students of journalism, is no great shakes. Not until 1933 did anyone do anything about providing clergymen with a professional honor society. Long in organizing, that society -Theta Phi-was launched last week under the auspices of a highly respectable group of U. S. ministers...
...Junior year he broadened out, joined Signet, helped found Harvard's chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma chemical fraternity. Delta Upsilon made him its president. In 1913, aged 20 and a year ahead of his class, he was graduated magna cum lande with a brilliant record in chemistry...
...journalistic fraternity of Sigma Delta Chi meeting last week in Chicago, its honorary president, Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher, spoke on "Editorial Criticism as a Constructive Influence in Public Affairs." After deploring the censorships of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler, Editor Pew told of a recent visit to the White House by a group of U. S. newsmen. Said Editor Pew: "I heard the President say that he was dumbfounded by the almost unanimous support given to his program by the American Press. . . . He said, 'But there is a fly in the ointment, gentlemen. Where is your criticism...