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Geography 21 is a course that should be required for all those concentrating in government as well as in Geography. It gives excellently the geographical reasons for political and social conditions. Professor Whittlesey, who is a good teacher as well as a thorough scientist, is able to clear up many of the fundamental questions of government. Although the course is limited, it is one which might be recommended to anyone at all interested in politics or political theory
Some years ago a scientist announced that it was possible to cut the head from off the body and allow the intellect to exist without nourishment of any king. George Bernard Shaw thought the conceit a quaint one, it would save his getting dressed in the morning and allow him to exert his only important function unhampered, so he toyed idly with the idea in the columns of the London Times. Mr. Shaw is still at large. In direct antithesis we have Thomas Hardy, writing in the fullness of his fatalism "that thought is a disease of the flesh...
...often do you find an eminent young scientist shopping at the ribbon counter of a 5^ & 10^ store. Yet it was there that 30-year-old Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaff, a Princeton graduate student (on a National Research Council fellowship) purchased the chief sinew of an invention, demonstrated publicly for the first time last week, of which President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. says: "[It] opens up the possibilities of transmutation of the elements on a commercial scale...
...Willem de Sitter though not generally known in America, is the foremost astronomer of the Continent. His current visit to Cambridge is of interest by virtue of his significant and authoritative refutation of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. The Dutch scientist conceives the universe as being slowly "blown up like a soap-bubble," an idea even more bewildering to the layman than Einstein's "warped space." Though this question is complex enough to make even astronomers' heads swim, its nevertheless illustrative of other disputes that should concern the average man and his beliefs...
Leverett House will entertain a distinguished guest tonight when H. G. Wells, famous historian and scientist dines at the third House dinner at 6.30 o'clock. Mr. Wells is spending three weeks in this country to see the completion of his new book, which in being published by Nelson Doubleday and Doran, and also in order to make a survey of the unemployment in this country...