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"I have not been in this country long enough to speak very authoritatively on the American university. The distinctions from our own are not, so far as I can see, very marked. If anything our students have a greater measure of freedom. There are no compulsory lectures, and it depends...
The writer in the "Graduates Magazine" has merely fallen into that error which so frequently ensnares such "laudatores temporis acti"; having compared the best of his own generation with the worst of ours, he fancies that he has accurately estimated our worth! It is only fifteen years since Harry Elkins...
The ancient Egyptian symbol for infinity was a serpent holding his tall in his mouth. It now transpires that the Egyptians had a much better symbol than ours of to-day, which is the complicated and arbitrary figure 8 inverted. For Einstein, and a colleague who comes forth as a...
Amazing discoveries to the layman were those announced yesterday by the University observatory at Arequipa, Peru The measurements of the Magellanic cloud show it to be a separate galaxy from ours, with an entirely new system of stars to be explored. With the comforting assurance of the existence of two...
All of these figures may mean much or little, according to the point of view. At all events, the Harvard station at Arequipa has mapped out a broad field fur future exploration. The question whether the house of our next door neighbor, Mars, only a fraction of a light year...