Word: scientist
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...philosophy are taking the place of religion? Do they not rather denote a change in the outward manifestations of religious spirit, while this very spirit itself remains unimpaired? The instinctive belief in an Unknowable is deep-rooted in every human being. In an unconscious way even the most skeptical scientist is religious...
Professor William F. Magie, of Princeton, a noted scientist, will lecture on "The Meteor Crater in Arizona," in the large lecture room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory tonight at 8.15. The lecture will be open to the public...
...remove the obstacle which stands in the way of the student who wishes to be a scientist and an athlete at the same time, there is only one way open--to institute evening laboratory periods. If the laboratories were kept open one night each week, from seven o'clock until ten o'clock, a student could keep up in his experimental work without sacrificing his chances to make some team. The laboratories here at Harvard are well equipped with electric lights, which would make it quire agreeable to work by night...
...Christmas Story," is ingenious in idea but clumsy in execution. Mr. Smith has never done anything quite so good as his story of the Missing Link. That conception is much too fertile to be exhausted in one episode. It affords a rich opportunity for satirizing the speculations of scientists; and what man of letters does not love to bait a scientist, especially when the latter blunders into the realm of imagination? Let therefore the Missing Link's dinosaur sneeze again, and project his master into new adventures...
...ideas is a tool invaluable in every walk and profession of life. Frequently, however, it is forgotten that this tool is in many of its adaptations very different in form from what it is in others. The prose of the business man differs from that of the scientist, and again from that of the political writer. And it is virtually impossible as well as superfluous to a great extent for any one student to master all forms...