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...rays were first discovered when it was found that air could not be made into a perfect electrical insulator by purification. Inasmuch as pure air is a non-conductor of electricity unless ionized, it was found that a hitherto unknown agency accomplished that ionization with increasing intensity as the altitude above sea level was increased. It was concluded, therefore, that the electrifying agency originated outside the Earth; it was accordingly determined to ascertain the nature of the so called cosmic rays, and one of the first essentials to be determined in their study is their origin...
...petition concerning the extension of student waiters to the Houses, was placed on the bulletin board of the Union yesterday afternoon and late last night had received 30 signatures. The petition is of unknown origin, and requests the signatures of all who "favor, or at least do not oppose the extension of student waiters in the Douses on the ground that in this emergency some method must be devised to secure work for students needing financial aid." A reminder that official action is under consideration at the present time is affixed to the petition, and the majority of the signers...
...Mother's Day (May 8) in Arlington National Cemetery, the Gold Star Mothers honored the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Soldier's Mother. Schoolchildren threw soil from all the States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
...sons become Americans: "... I found on my desk letters in which gentle young Germans called me pet names. Of these 'Old Sow' was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that young Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. . . . That experience strengthened me in my resolution to raise my boys in a country in which it is not taken for granted that a woman should clean a man's boots...
...human knowledge. This grows harder (or sillier) every year. Students thrilled last week to read about Thomas Walsh Jr. of Chicago, a student who gave his life for his Ph.D. Chemistry Student Walsh and his friend Harold Foard of West Virginia left Huanuco, Peru in November to explore the unknown headwaters of the Paute River in Southern Ecuador, to gather data for Walsh's doctorate. For two years they had been in Oroya, Peru on the staff of New York's Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp...