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...Bertrand Russell, the English Liberal philosopher, who has been forbidden, under the provisions of the British military service act, to leave England for the purpose of lecturing at Harvard University, and who has been commanded to live within a restricted area of England, where his movements can be strictly observed, is by no means the spy or marplot which these prohibitions might be taken to indicate, He is merely so much the philosopher that he cannot take a national view of the questions involved in the war. Like Woodrow Wilson, he regards the whole world as mad, with one nation...
...This scheme only includes the men coming from private schools, but should all those who come from easily accessible schools, both public and private, be allowed to return on a particular day the resulting advantages would be more far-reaching. Since Harvard is situated in the centre of an area comprising the largest number of preparatory schools in the country, the possible difficulty of a prohibitory distance of the schools from the college can be disregarded...
Messages from a large area of the United States and from, Europe are constantly received and are recorded on a tape-registering machine by new devices developed at the laboratory. Aeroplane wireless equipment is receiving especial study, while a powerful Poulsen Are apparatus for transmission of signals to a great distance is under construction. A storage battery of 100,000 volts is also under construction. Although much work remains to be done in providing adequate equipment for the plant, the opportunities afforded for study and research are already unusual. Several papers dealing with the results of research are in press...
Last year's party consisted of fourteen men who, during the first three weeks of their work, made a geological survey of an area of nearly 200 square miles. They were organized as a Government party, working in an unsurveyed region...
...study of "The Younger Generation of American Genius" has aroused widespread interest. He has come to the conclusion that American leadership "arises even the last generation from one-half of the population, the men from one small group of the population the college-bred, from one small geographical area, the northeastern section of the United States; from one small group of occupations, the professions." In reply to the criticism that the recent growth of the West makes a study of general nineteenth century talent unfair, Prof. Nearing chose 200 men in "Who's Who" who were born since...