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...rearrange the human nervous system so that one kind of sense impression is substituted for another, but it is quite within the scope of science to turn light into music, sound into color. His instrument, called the "luminaphone," releases light from a series of searchlights to strike through a pattern of holes on revolving disks. Each hole is the equivalent of a note of music. The light, interrupted so as to form the pattern of a tune, passes through the holes to strike selenium plates, setting up vibrations which are "amplified" as on a radio. When Inventor Grindell-Matthews placed...
...fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call him "America's Foremost Patron of tre Arts." Or he might have thought, not without satisfaction, of the banking career whose compact pattern knits these scattered salients. Formerly cashier in a bank in Carlsruhe, Germany, later Vice President of a German bank in London, he came to the U.S. during the panic of 1893, took a job as clerk, and in a few years was helping E. H. Harriman rehabilitate the Union Pacific...
...Great as the danger is of constructing the tutorial conference on the pattern of class instruction, there is equal risk of over-emphasizing the difference between the two. You do not overcome the defects of mere efficiency by mere inefficiency. To light a cigarette, stretch one's legs on the desk, and indulge in aimless, endless talk leads to wisdom no more than does the mechanical taking of notes or the frenzied cramming for an examination. We should watch lest the tutorial method degrade the process of learning into a form of intellectual journalism; in practice it should involve serious...
...salvation. On Sundays, the atheist must have a radio of high selectivity to keep hymns and homilies from intruding on the more secular programs which he, in his darkness, prefers to hear. Church fronts are everywhere decorated with lame aphorisms which a well-meaning pastor has composed after the pattern of happier advertising slogans. Long before the Babbitts had dreamed of luncheon clubs, church suppers, preceded and followed by prayer, were a universal institution...
There was the matter of an international spiritualist flag, and one was adopted, white with a golden sun (the astral body) spreading bright rays (psychic emanations) after the pattern of Japan's rising sun. There was the matter of mourning, and they passed a resolution denouncing rites by the "living" for the "dead" as "egotistical". There was laying of wreaths on the grave of the Unknown Soldier, ("They live always," read Sir Conan Doyle's wreath. "There is no death; there are no dead," read that of Mrs. M. D. Cadwallader of Chicago.); and there was denunciation...