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...modern religionist has ever rivaled Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, shrewd founder of Christian Science. She repeatedly worried her remarkable work, Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures, revising it indefatigably, issuing one edition after another. Each edition differed enough from the last so that no Christian Scientist could afford to be without it. Last week when 6,000 of Mrs. Eddy's followers gathered in Boston for Mother Church's annual one-day meeting, Science & Health was clearly still the fastest-moving item on the publishing church's list of 246 books. Its latest forms...
...Williams, Henry L. Shattuck, treasurer of the University, and Morris B. Lambie, political scientist, were both honored, the former as doctor of laws, the second doctor or humane letters...
With his morning notes to prove that some of his dreams were really more or less accurate previsions of phenomena experienced later, Dunne began to think about the sort of world in which such things could happen. He adopted the deterministic universe cherished by many a philosopher and scientist from Plato to Einstein*;a universe in which Future and Past are both parts of a unified reality, and in which the distinction between them is a purely mental one. In the preoccupied waking state, reasoned Philosopher Dunne, the mind has no contact with the "future" in sleep, when it wanders...
...Villanova College last week went the Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, Belgian-born professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame, to receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...
UNDER THE AXE OF FASCISM-Gaetano Salvemini-Viking ($3). The case against Mussolini, forcefully presented by an exiled political scientist, now lecturing at Harvard...