“Mi casa es la suya”

NOV 01, 1954

A visiting professor of physics at the University of Puerto Rico during the last academic year, the author describes the hospitable island of Puerto Rico, a territorial possession of the United States, as a combination of home and foreign country. The above view of the University campus at Mayagüez looks west along the palm‐shaded walk in front of the science building, which houses the physics department. Photo courtesy of the Alumni Association of the University of Puerto Rico.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3061433

Richard Hanau

It is Engineering Week at the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, February 22–27, 1954. Just as in stateside colleges of the United States, there are luncheons, lectures exhibits, and trips through local factories. I am in the main auditorium where we are about to hear a lecture by the head of a Puerto Rican research institute. Everyone is in shirtsleeves or sportshirts, for the weather is typical of the tropics. Through the open doors and louvered shutters I can see the royal palms, flowering African tulip trees, and the fern‐leaved flamboyán. The breeze cools those of us who hurried over from a class the last hour.

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References

1. L. del Rosario and J. Dávila‐Aponte, Phys. Rev. 88, 998 (1952).https://doi.org/PHRVAO
2. A Cobas R. Arce, and J. Garcia de la Noceda, A Cosmic Ray Multitelescope and Hodoscope Unit, University of Puerto Rico Press, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, 1951.
3. S. K. Mitra, The Upper Atmosphere, Asiatic Society, Calcutta, India, 1952.

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Richard Hanau, University of Kentucky.