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...Statler's salons, they unpacked their special exhibits for the judges' inspection. One "young scientist had an ant hill; another brought a tesseract ("This is a three-dimensional representation," he explained, "of what a fourth-dimensional thing would look like, if there were a fourth dimension...
...very well to say that Mark Hopkins could teach on the end of a log: his subject was moral philosophy. His brother Albert, who was a scientist, needed a laboratory. In the century since the Hopkins brothers, education has rolled off the log and become one of the nation's biggest industries; though it has spent millions on its factories it needs two billion dollars more. Where will the money come from...
...book is the work of a Scottish physicist, Lancelot Whyte, 51, who was chairman and managing director of Power Jets, Ltd. from 1936 to 1941. With Frank Whittle, inventor of gas turbine jet propulsion, he shared in the development of jet propulsion. Whyte is a scientist who believes that science has a social duty to perform...
...telegram expressing a vote of confidence was sent to Condon yesterday by his personal friends among the faculty. Kenneth T. Bainbridge, professor of Physics, a personal friend of Condon's since 1928, stated that the scientist was "well-fitted for his position...
...work of science is cooperative; a scientist takes his colleagues as judges, competitors and collaborators. That does not mean, of course, that he loves his colleagues; but it gives him a way of living with them which would not be without its use in the contemporary world...