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...nothing but electricity, the physicists adduce the neutron which has no charge and therefore cannot exist-although a stream of neutrons will knock the living daylights out of a block of paraffin. With equal politeness Professor Andrade replied, declaring in effect that it was really not the physicists' fault if atoms behaved in a way not explainable "in anthropomorphic terms of likes and dislikes," that physicists were not trying to be confusing but to obtain the best possible description of what Lord Rutherford called "a world of its own"-the atomic nucleus. "Now, perhaps," concluded the professor, "Colonel Moore...
...Philadelphia's mid-Victorian Academy of Music, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, under platinum-blond Maestro Leopold Stokowski, jiggled and swayed, did their best to lose their educated musician's sense of discipline, tried embarrassingly to get hot. The result was pretty tepid, but not their fault. William Grant Still, Negro composer of the Afro-American Symphony, had asked for it by writing a new Symphony in G Minor based on jazz, blues and other American musical idioms...
Thus the young become old. They fail to achieve a balance between the good and bad, adopt an attitude through no fault of their own that is not only unnecessary, but destructive of life itself. Youth, if he reckons in the evil formulating his ideals, will be able to meet and conquer the disappointment of life, and preserve his idealism to the end. Santa Claus need never...
...appeal alone, Author Ludwig insists, has never achieved such results. That Caesar and Antony went down was not Cleopatra's fault; if, says Ludwig, they had followed her advice, her example in killing off two brothers and two sisters, had not naively pardoned their enemies, everything would have been all right. Pale, cold-blooded Octavian, whom easygoing Antony had twice neglected to "liquidate," won out because he followed a more modern technique of demagogy and blood purges. It is in tracing such blunders of Caesar and Antony that Author Ludwig makes Cleopatra's maneuvers shine with genius, makes...
...causes of the illness have been discovered, although many Freshmen blame their indispositions on Union food. No proof, however, has been advanced to prove that the food served at supper Tuesday was at fault. Dr. Edward G. Huber of the School of Public Health will investigate possible sources of the infection at the Union Dining Halls...