A Time and Place

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Across
  1. 1. Blacker's event during prefrosh weekend used to involve smashing this
  2. 3. You can buy an MIT shirt at the Caltech bookstore; on the back, "Because not _____ can go to Caltech" is written
  3. 4. Space telescope retired in 2020 that was operated by Caltech, with Mission Control in the Keith Spalding building
  4. 6. Researchers in "BBB" study _____
  5. 8. First director of Caltech's aerospace department (GALCIT), whose namesake line is the boundary between the atmosphere and space
  6. 11. A Caltech professor who destroyed the original ninth planet in the Solar System
  7. 12. Premiered at Bayreuth, Germany in 1876
  8. 13. Building with a wind tunnel in the basement
  9. 15. Popular name for Beckman Auditorium
  10. 18. A venerable tradition in Blacker, usually involving overexertion of the secretary and lasting well past midnight on the last day
  11. 21. Opened by the waiters at the close of dinner
  12. 25. Caltech was first known as _____ University
  13. 26. One of the inventors of the transistor, also a Mole
  14. 27. Old name for the math building
  15. 29. Before the Rose Bowl was built, the Rose Bowl football game was played at Caltech's _____ Park, south of the gyms
  16. 31. The HVAR was a 5-inch diameter aircraft-carried _____, a weapon developed by Caltech during World War II
  17. 32. Species of oak that used to occupy the hole in the ground north of Millikan Bridge
Down
  1. 1. Won two Nobel Prizes; this fact is probably held in disdain by Nate Lewis
  2. 2. Concrete edifice; also a penitentiary
  3. 4. The MechE machine shop and the EE labs are both located in _____s
  4. 5. Name of the shape of the sculpture in the courtyard of the Linde Laboratory
  5. 7. Namesake of this library gave Gordon Moore funding to quit [26]'s lab and start an eponymous semiconductor company
  6. 9. There are two gyms at Caltech with the same name, but only this one has color
  7. 10. The Blacker lion is from the logo of Löwenbräu, a _____ in Munich, Germany
  8. 14. Physicist who was a visiting lecture at Caltech for the winter terms of 1931-1933.
  9. 16. Do not wake up Tomorrow without _____, in case you see a senior on campus
  10. 17. Caltech alum (Dabney '57 - sadly not a Mole) and astronaut awakened on the Moon by the Ride on Apollo 17
  11. 19. The 270 ft. long wire strung between the roof of Firestone and Spaulding is actually an _______ operating at 1.82 MHz
  12. 20. Caltech challenged MIT to a transcontinental race with this type of vehicle in 1968, and won
  13. 22. Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus, also a Mole
  14. 23. Animal on the ARC logo
  15. 24. "Five guys at Caltech were trying to make rocket fuel and they nearly burned down their dorm. And rather than expel them they banished them to a nearby farm, told them to keep working. And now we have a space program" - from The Martian, about the founding of _____. Unfortunately those were grad students, not Moles.
  16. 28. The Caltech Robotics Team names its robots after characters from this franchise
  17. 30. In 2011, this device was placed on the roof of Baxter by MIT students, in collaboration with Caltech students