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Smith girls, drifting into pretty Northampton for college's opening last week, found the place in a town v. gown stew. A. Burns Chalmers, the college's pacifistic Quaker chaplain, is host to a 27-year-old mathematical physicist, Schuichi Kusaka, born in Japan, newly appointed to the Smith faculty. Kusaka was in Northampton with the approval of the FBI, but some townsmen had found his presence unfair "to those who have died...
...born in Osaka, left Japan when he was four, got his elementary education in Vancouver schools. He made a brilliant record at the Universities of British Columbia and California, M.I.T. and Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study (TIME, Aug. 9), was recommended to Smith by a Chinese physicist, Miss Chien Shiung Wu. In perfect English, Kusaka declared his opposition to the Emperor of Japan but, as shy as he was able, preferred not to enter the controversy. The staid Springfield Republican, said: "Come, let us be reasonable. The protest was . . . injudicious. . . .Tolerance . . . will do no harm...
...confused with the outfits designed by the Navy's Lieuts. Consolazio & Spealman, Caltech's Physicist Goetz...
...great 18th-Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked for a handout for a sick employe, he offered...
...made by objects when they are struck (e.g., the splash of water). The "bow-wowers" hold that man began talking by mimicking the sounds of nature. The "pooh-poohers" believe that instinctive cries of pain, surprise, love or the like were the original source of words. In 1930 British Physicist Sir Richard Paget got more scientific about it, argued that words originated in man's characteristic gestures of the tongue and lips (e.g., blowing air through the larynx while making the gestures of eating produces mnyum, mnyuh). Dr. Thorndike calls this the "yum-yum" theory, waves it aside with...