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M.I.T. scored three touchdowns to defeat the Crimson Rugby Club, 9 to 3, in a practice game at Tech yesterday afternoon. The varsity scored their three points on a penalty kick by Pat Parker...
South. Maryland, say the experts, is the best in the nation. Quarterback Jack Scarbath, already hailed as "Back of the Year," and 245-lb. Tackle Dick Modzelewski are enough to make a good team great. In the Southeastern Conference, Georgia Tech, with 36 lettermen returning, is rated a notch ahead of Tennessee. Mississippi has a dangerous running offense; playing an easy schedule that bypasses both Tech and Tennessee, it might wind up conference champion...
After meeting the sailors, the club will play M.I.T. twice and will travel to Princeton along with the football team. The Crimson beat Tech on several occasions last season and expects to do like-wise this year. The Tigers, however, will give the varsity a tough match...
Hospitals for Nothing. Harrison took a course in construction engineering at Worcester Tech. But there must be better places than Worcester, he decided, to find out about architecture. When he was 20, he went to New York and applied for a job with the most famous firm of architects in the U.S., McKim, Mead & White. They had put up half the nouveau riche palaces in Newport, R.I., and had just built the Morgan Library in Manhattan, while some Bellevue Hospital buildings, the Racquet and Tennis Club and several Columbia University buildings were among the projects on their drawing boards. Harrison...
Astronomer Fritz Zwicky of Cal Tech thinks there is another way to pack matter tightly. Normal atoms contain one electron for each proton in the nucleus. If the electrons could be persuaded to unite with the protons, each pair would form a neutron. This reaction does not take place under normal conditions; the electrons circle forever, and the protons stay in the nucleus. But Zwicky believes that under the strange and violent conditions that exist in certain large stars, electrons may unite with protons...