Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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High Speed Protons. An apparatus for accelerating the motion of protons until they race along at 37,000 mi. per sec. has been successfully tested, explained Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, physicist at the University of California. The new method does not involve the difficult high voltages which have been thought necessary in producing high speed sub-atomic projectiles. Protons (hydrogen atoms stripped of their electrons) are sent back and forth between two semicircular hollow plates by means of alternating currents of 10,000 volts and a magnetic field. As they continue in a spiral motion they gather speed, finally shoot...
This will be the first year that the now method of selection will go into effect, the 48 states of the Union having been divided up into eight districts of six states each and four men being chosen from each district. Men appointed this year will enter Oxford in October 1931. Any information regarding the scholarships may be obtained from the secretary for this district, Professor C.C. Brinton of Dunster House...
...many opportunities as, the other introductory courses in science, but no more. They all fall through the necessity of establishing a strict norm in order to grade the students as easily as possible. Therefore there is much unnecessary routine, much prep school discipline, and not a little superficiality of method...
Facts as such play a very small part in this course; it is much more a systematic method of thinking that the student must master; reasoning power, not memory, is necessary in order to understand and succeed in ec A. By this one should not understand that no work is required, that all one needs to do to get a good grade, is to go to quizzes once a month and exercise his reasoning power. Not at all; reasoning power and concentration are quite as necessary in studying the principles of economics as they are in answering questions on examinations...
Professor Williams, however, has chosen the only practicable method of getting the subjects over and is to be congratulated on the general success of his system...