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...pictures in 1850. Every clear night for the past 40 years they have been adding to the collection until now it is a permanent record of things understood or obscure beyond the night. It is a towering compendium of dots and streaks in photographic gelatine which, to the theoretical physicist, suggest the whence and the whither of all things. By means of the Harvard plates three-fourths of all known variable stars have been discovered, the majority of new stars recognized, the spectra of a million stars recorded...
...last week Mr. Sloan must have remembered that visit for it became known that a division of General Motor's Frigidaire Corp. will soon offer the only other gas refrigerator in the U. S. It will be called the Faraday in honor of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), famed physicist. It is expected that sales will be handled in good measure by gas companies attempting to increase their own sales...
Save for Chairman Alvan Emile Duerr of the Interfraternity Conference, all contributors to the first issue of The American Scholar are Phi Beta Kappas. Among them: Owen D. Young, Mary Emma Woolley (see p. 14), President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, Physicist Karl Taylor Compton, Hermann Hagedorn, John William Davis, Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The casual reader, glancing through the high intellectual pages of The American Scholar, might well wonder if some one had not made a horrible mistake in printing this...
...limited time altogether without oxidation (a condition which is also true of some normal cells and which therefore is not the explanation of cancer). He is 48, has been head of the biology department of the Institute for 21 years. He is the son of the late great Physicist Emil Warburg...
...physics, says Russell, cannot yet be translated into plain English. "Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say. . . . The men of science have not said nearly as much as they are thought to have said, and in the second place what they have said in the way of support for traditional religious beliefs has been said by them not in their cautious, scientific capacity, but rather in their capacity of good citizens...