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Edward Wight Washburn, chief chemist of the U. S. Bureau of Standards until his recent death, showed how electrolysis could be used to get a fairly high conce tration of heavy water. Dean of Chemistry Gilbert Newton Lewis of the University of California later devised a series of electrolyses to produce almost pure heavy water. At Princeton, Dr. Hugh S. Taylor made three ounces of heavy water whose density could not be increased by repeated refinements, concluded he had pure deuterium oxide. Meanwhile heavy water's first fabulous cost of $150 per gram (about $37,500 for a glassful...
Other officers elected were: Vice-President, Griffeth Bowen Washburn '35, of Greystone Park, New Jersey; Secretary, Victor Horsley Kramer '35, of Clincinnati, Ohio; Treasurer, George Clifton Edwards, Jr. 1G.; and Committee-man-at-large Raymond Dennett '36, of Washington...
...constitution, which was drawn up by a committee, composed of Edwards, Washburn, Quinn, Dennett, and Charles Cherington, is prefaced by a quotation from Alfred N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy: "A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past." Adhering to this preamble, the program of the Liberal Club in the future will include "active participation in the political and social movements of the time, and constant adventure with new thought...
...Henry B. Washburn '33 will show ski movies tonight at 8 o'clock in the ball-room of the Hotel Continental. The proceeds from this presentation of the "Attack on Crillon" will be used to pay the salary of Charles W. Proctor, as ski coach, this winter...
...hundred colored slides and four thousand feet of film make up this pictorial account of the ascent of Mount Crillon in Alaska. The White Mountain Ski-runners' Club has sponsored Washburn's movie which the Boston Transcript termed the most wonderful ski motion picture ever seen. Harvard men may attend by paying $.75, instead of the general admission...