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...currency inflation bill which strips Congress of most of its constitutional power to regulate the value of money. Soon Congress is expected to be asked to pass over to the White House, under this Moley device, its authority over tariff rates and War Debt payments. In two months Political Scientist Moley has found a way to concentrate in the hands of the President greater executive power than ever before in U. S. history. That fact alone explains why Professor Moley is viewed with alarm on Capitol Hill...
...doctor is Florence Rena Sabin. Unimportant that she was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins Medical School (1900), first to teach there, first to become a full member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Unimportant the honors: Dr. Simon Flexner calling her the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time; the National Academy of Sciences making her its first woman member; Pictorial Review giving her $5,000 for "achievement." Her importance lies with her studies in anatomy and pathology. She has made an atlas of the medulla and midbrain...
...earth's features were formed, he should appreciate and enjoy Professor Mather's course. Of course, as in all elementary sciences the new and unfamiliar technique to be mastered and the arbitrary manner of setting forth principles and facts to be memorized is apt to repel the would be scientist. In spite of the popular conceptions of geologists in boy scout uniforms, hammering at rocks or partly fossilized among their dried bones and museum specimens, this is one of the most stimulating of the sciences. It teaches one to think in terms of great stretches of space and time...
...student of American history or literature this course is essential, and for the harassed scientist looking for some easy, though enjoyable manner by which he may pass off his literature requirement it may be taken without the fear of spending one's time in the drudgery of uninteresting reading...
...your issue of April 3, one of your correspondents tells a story about a lovely long word invented by a scientist to represent "the complete sound caused by the sudden entry from above of a large stone into a deep pool." As a matter of fact the word pompholygopaplilasma (for that is the correct transliteration) was invented by the comic poet Aristophanes, and may be found at 1. 249 of his play The Frogs. It is made up of pompholyx which means a bubble, and paphlisma which means a frothing or foaming up. Hence the Aristophanic compound represents the sound...