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...prophylaxis at birth, the statement is made that "The bill carried a Senate amendment which was so full of religious implications that a "subcommittee had to be appointed to deal with it."The chief U. S. church which treats human ailments by prayer is the Church of Christ, Scientist." You further quote Dr. George C. Ruhland, District Health Officer, as saying, "I have the highest regard for religion, but religious belief does not prevent blindness." May I take issue with Dr. Ruhland on this point, for thousands of individuals have been healed of blindness and many cases where from...
...discover that the collection of classical records in the library is the largest of any in the University. The dramatist can find a chance for emoting in the House play, the editorially minded may want to use the Chronicle to relieve his over-burdened brain, while the budding young scientist can feel free to propound whatever theories he wishes in the Lowell House Scientific Society meetings. Perhaps there will be found future Walter Lippmanns among the members of the House Social Science Club...
...chief U. S. church which treats human ailments by prayer is the Church of Christ, Scientist. Having failed last year to kill a similar prophylaxis bill in its home State, Massachusetts, the Church had lobbied for the Senate amendment and sent its Washington one-man Committee on Publications, William G. Biederman, to the House subcommittee hearing last week to see that it stuck. Committeeman Biederman argued Christian Science's case on, broad Constitutional grounds while physicians and welfare workers simply held out for silver nitrate on its own merits. Said District Health Officer Dr. George C. Ruhland: "I have...
...Dirac then proposed to construct a new universe out of the leftovers. He had noticed that another scientist of imagination, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, had arrived at theoretical values for certain constants, such as the quantity of matter in the universe (using the proton as a unit) and the ratio of the electric to the gravitational force between proton and electron. These two Eddington values worked out at 10 78 (10 multiplied by itself 77 times) and 10 39 . Although, as Dirac says, "Eddington's arguments are not always rigorous," they nevertheless gave him "the feeling that they...
...President praised the newspapers for their "admirable" reports of the Tercentenary Conference and declared it encouraging "that the leading newspapers now have developed staffs capable of understanding and interpreting the work of the scholar and scientist," for "if knowledge is to be advanced in a democracy the leaders of opinion and the intelligent voters must be kept in touch with what scholarship and research really signify...