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...soli passages. The only poor performance came in some low register passages that were clearly beyond the ability of the Bassist, especially in some sustained notes of questionable constancy in the Gloria; but he sounded fine in the higher registers. The star of the evening was soprano Marsha Vleck who, though lacking the heroic power of the Choral Society's previous sopratio soloist, sang beautifully, accurately, and gracefully...
John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics, has been appointed George Eastman Professor of Oxford University for the academic year 1961-62, Courtney Smith, American Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships, said recently...
...Vleck commented that he plans to lecture on the theory of magnetism while at Oxford. He hopes to avail himself also of the opportunity to do research of Oxford's renowned Clarendon Laboratory...
...Vleck, a member of the five-man Harvard team sent to the universities of Moscow and Leningrad in February 1959, praised Soviet work in physics, stating that it had equaled the American level for the past ten years...
Similarly, scientific professors, especially members of the exclusive Academy of Sciences, are comparatively "big men" in the Soviet social scale. Doty likened them yesterday to top-level American executives in the amount of reward they reap from society, which Van Vleck commented on the large number of cars and chauffeurs they have. As Doty pointed out, "In Russia science is an area where you receive according to your ability...