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...history of education at University of Minnesota. Other Commissioners include: Ada Louise Comstock, president of Radcliffe College; Isaiah Bowman, director of American Geographical Society, Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, Columbia historian. One of four who refused to sign the report was University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam. Like the Hoover Committee on Recent Social Trends, whose researches it found useful, the Commission began its survey in 1929. Financed by several hundred thousand Carnegie Corporation dollars and aided by scores of investigators, its announced purpose was to map the present and chart the future of social studies...
...station attendants Scientist Robbert A. Millikan said: "Why, they have improved the manners and the courtesy and the consideration of the American public more than all the colleges in the country...
This was no economist with a Message for the 2,000 packed listeners, but a scientist. More strange, he was there to talk on a subject in which nine-tenths of the audience had had no prior interest: "The Expanding Universe." But he was Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, M. A., D. Sc.. LL. D., F. R. S., Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge University, Director of Cambridge Observatory, metaphysician extraordinary of modern physics...
...delivery of Cornell University's Messenger Lectures for 1934. Besides his ''Expanding Universe" talk he gave Chicago, while he was there, his more metaphysical lecture, "Science and Experience." He dined with President & Mrs. Hutchins, met a few socialites, congratulated his fellow-scientist Dr. Arthur Holly Compton on the latter's appointment, announced from London last week, as next year's visiting professor at Oxford in the chair endowed by the late Cameraman George Eastman. He found time to motor out and visit his old friend Director Otto Struve of the Yerkes Observatory at Williams...
...sold 20,000 copies in Britain, 33,000 in the U. S. Both books have been translated into a half-dozen languages. Aware that Einstein considers Eddington the foremost exponent of Relativity, many an impartial appraiser is inclined to give Eddington a slight edge over Jeans as a pure scientist. But the difference between Jeans's influence on the lay world and Eddington's is not in any small disparity of scientific reputation. Prime difference is that they see God differently...