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Then in 1915 Einstein produced his General Theory of Relativity, a beautiful theoretical concept but, after all, just a theory. Yet the Relativity mathematics was found to predict a shift of Mercury's orbit which was practically the same as the observed shift. This was the first observational prop for Relativity.* So Einstein may have felt a nostalgic glow last week, if anyone remembered to tell him that Mercury was transiting (passing directly between the sun and the earth...
...come to have a meaning for the enlightened student, which it has, and if he has adopted it as the principle which he would like to have govern his relations with the university, then no definition of terms from above can deprive him of the conviction that this limited concept be extended to apply to his own case, as well as to that of the faculty...
...bill was in trouble from the day it was written. To the Treasury, taxable excess profits meant any & all profits above a certain return (say, 4% to 8%) on invested capital. The House subcommittee which drafted the original bill softened this concept (which is hard on small corporations that use little capital in proportion to their earnings) and confused it. As an alternative, the subcommittee added what was in effect a war-profits tax-a tax on profits above the average of three or four pre-tax years, the increment being supposedly attributable to the defense boom. For the sake...
Writing in the current issues of Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly respectively, Adler and Cram are in close agreement in their diagnoses of the ills of the younger generation. They state that the current undergraduate is skeptical of principles and moral issues and has no concept of the difference between right and wrong. The student of today has followed the broad path of science down into the smoking hell of positivism and empirical rationalism, a hell whose number one devil is John Dewey...
...Bois thought he saw two world trends: 1) the waning of capitalism; 2) the waning concept of man as a rational being. From these he derived a new program for U. S. Negroes: 1) cooperative action among Negro consumers, building toward industrial democracy, i.e., socialism; 2) recognition of the deep, irrational roots of race prejudice, demanding "on our part not only the patience to wait, but the power to entrench ourselves for a long siege...