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...latest problem we have been dealing with at the Gibbs Laboratory, to which I have given a great deal of time, is that of radioactive lead. A large number of experiments of varying character have resulted in the showing that at least two kinds of lead exist: one, the ordinary metal used in our pipes and otherwise industrially throughout the world; another, a form of lead, with lower atomic weight but otherwise precisely similar, produced apparently by the decomposition of uranium. Radium has been found by others to be one of the intermediate products, and it has come...
...such remote scientific knowledge, as the special problem just mentioned has established, be of any practical use? Who can tell? Many years elapsed before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...
...Australia to the United States, has been announced as the next speaker in the Union's schedule for November and December. Mr. Sheldon will address a meeting to be held next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. His subject will be "Australian Problem," with special reference to the labor situation. Because of the great progress of Australia in the settling of her labor troubles, and the thorough study which Mr. Sheldon has made of the subject, his talk is expected to be particularly illuminating...
...Until the time for action arrives, it is worse than useless to parade our grievances in public. The result is only too likely to be the rekindling of the flames of anger and stubbornness in both Japan and America--names which will prevent any peaceable settlement of the problem. If legislation may prove to be the remedy, why stir up excitement and antagonism by the cry of "wolf, wolf!"? Mr. Lodge is carrying a "big stick," but he is not walking softly...
...that more men take tennis as a form of exercise to keep fit than any other sport in the University. The encouragement of a sport that men can keep up long after they leave college is something the University ought not to overlook. The indoor courts would solve this problem. PAUL JACKSON...