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...resident host and welcomer to Rhodes Scholars at Oxford (TIME, March 7, 1932) and this year, with his white-haired, U. S.-born wife, has been visiting Rhodesmen old and new about the land (TIME, May 22). And. to tune in with the times, the Rhodesmen would hold a symposium on International Cures for Depression, chief speaker Newton D. Baker on "The Superstate...
...Woman Accused (Paramount). When the editors of Liberty called upon ten contributors for a chapter apiece of a serial story, they solved Paramount's problem of finding a second story with which to follow the symposium-picture, If I Had a Million. The Woman Accused has compromising situations by Ursula Parrott, faux pas by Polan Banks, neurotics by Vicki Baum, plumbing by Vina Delmar, further ingredients by Rupert Hughes, Zane Grey, Irvin S. Cobb, Gertrude Atherton, J. P. McEvoy, Sophie Kerr. It turns out to be a surprisingly unified but solidly routine story about a pretty woman (Nancy Carroll...
...Crimson continues its symposium on the tutorial system below with comments by members of the Psychology Department. Owing to the exigencies of space, the Crimson will be unable to run all the comments in each department...
...Millikan's persistent view after 15 years is that cosmic rays are photons, or particles of light. He believes they originate from the creation of matter between the stars. But where they originate was not the nub of last week's symposium. What they are was the point. Dr. Compton declared again that they were electrons (and/or photons) coming to earth from beyond the atmosphere, or originating at the top of the atmosphere. When a photon hits an atom in the atmosphere, the atom emits an electron. When an electron hits an atom, the atom emits a photon...
...Gamma Alpha Symposium on "Energy," which was held in the New Lecture Hall last night at 8 o'clock, three members of the Faculty spoke to an audience of over 500 people. They were P. W. Bridgman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, W. J. Crozier, professor of General Physiology, and A. E. Kennelly, professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus. The speakers were introduced by G. H. Parker, professor of Zoology...