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Under the crossed banners of the American Institute of Physics and the New York Electrical Society in Manhattan last week met three famed men of Science, with many a lesser luminary, to retort for their profession. One was Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other was Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology. The third was Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories. In a telegram to the meeting President Roosevelt took a nicely neutral position: "The value to civilization of scientific thought and research cannot be questioned. . . . The idea that Science is responsible...
What, inquired Dr. Compton, would the 10,000,000 persons in the automotive industry be doing today if oldtime carriage-makers had succeeded in scotching the horseless buggy...
Calling attention to the fact that certain NRA codes tend to stifle technological advance, that only ? of 1% of the Federal budget is earmarked for Science, Dr. Compton predicted that any check on U. S. research would result in calamitous competition from foreign countries not so "short-sighted...
...things which Science has had on the fire for some time. Last week 3,000 U. S. and Canadian American Association members gathered in Boston for their 93rd meeting. They were welcomed by Massachusetts' Governor Ely and by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton on behalf of M. I. T., Harvard and eight other Greater Boston institutions acting as hosts. Then in scores of sectional meetings the scientists settled down to read 1,500 papers. Among them...
...paragraphs, falling inexorably into place, and the people, the situations, the emotions, falling with them. His attitude, however, to these people at a Second Empire hotel is broader and deeper than his manner would indicate. "Tender is the Night" gives the uneasy impression of being a potboiler as Compton MacKenzie's Italian and detective stories give it; for just as Mr. MacKenzie cannot keep out of his froth, phrased as froth, some of his more sober merit, Mr. Fitzgerald gives us disturbing glimpses of a kind of writing different from any that he has ever done. Mr. MacKenzie does...