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...produced a report on smelting and assaying which was a masterpiece of detail; he guided Sweden in its currency policy, dealt with the balance of trade and the liquor laws, ancestored all Scandinavian geologists, arrived at the nebular hypothesis to explain the formation of planets long before Kant and LaPlace, was an original chemist, sketched a flying machine...
...foreign financing after having boasted that Italy was able to do without such aid. The Finance Minister laid their minds at ease. This was not a loan, as some of the Deputies thought, but a credit,* and Italy was not contracting a new debt. He took the opportunity to explain that the allegedly imminent refunding of Italy's debt to the U. S. would not disturb the financial security of the country, for "it appears to be pretty generally recognized by the creditor nations that any settlement must be subordinate to the debtor's capacity to pay." However...
...human attainment. At Rutgers he was the Homer Hazel† of his day-a great shot putter, a sturdy footballer. He came forward and presented the public with an explanation** of what evolution is, its facts and theories and the religious attitudes with which it is compatible. He explained evolution, not Darwinism. Darwin was only one of those who have contributed to the doctrine of evolution - although the most important one by reason of the evidence he gathered and the theories which he formulated to explain it. Charles Darwin's own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had the conception in part...
While psychologists have been attempting to explain the eye in all its workings, Professor E. L. Chaffee A.M. '08 has been engaged in experiments on a single portion, the retina. The belief that the physical approach to an understanding of the eye will produce more rapid results than psychological experiments has actuated Professor Chaffee. Now after several years' aid from the Cancer Commission, he is enabled by the Milton awards to continue his experiments for another year...
This may serve to explain the Oxford man's innate suspicion of education by lectures, which he regards as a form of persecution depriving him of the right to hit back when provoked. The essence of his own method of education is best expressed by the common phrase that So-and-so is "reading" for honours in history; it may also be illustrated by the statement in "Who's Who" of a distinguished scholar hailing from Eton and Oxford that he was "self-educated...