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...James Jeans speaking in Sanders Theatre last night presented the physicist's point of view regarding the outcome of the universe. The English scientist has concluded, without the unanimous approval of his fellow physicists, that matter continuously passing into pure radiation will eventually leave the cosmos devoid of substance in its tangible form...
...days of Democritus and Lucretius, a field fertile to the romantic imagination, is more rational in its severity and yet more romantic in its doctrine and possibility than ever before. Philosophy, which Professor Whitehead has called the architectural plan, has been hard pressed during the last century. The scientists seem to be building and destroying before the architect has drawn a line, instead of as previously, the architects drawing and destroying plans before the scientist has lifted an unknown into the position of a conscious reality...
...James, besides being an eminent scientist, is a well-known author of theoretical as well as popular books on scientific subjects...
...James, prominent as a mathematician as well as an astronomer, has been elected the Medalist of the Franklin Institute for the present year. "The Mysterious Universe," "The Universe Around. Us," and "The Stars in Their Courses" are the best known of the books which the eminent scientist has written on the field which he is to treat in his lecture tonight. From 1919 to 1928, he was the secretary of the Royal Society, and has been since 1923 Research Associate of the Mount Wilson Observatory, of which he has been the guest during the first part of the present year...
...Jazz Singer Al Jolson, son of a cantor, received his early training in rhythmic, highly-colored Chassidic chants. † Last week Dr. Holmes listed the "ten greatest women of today," as follows: Jane Addams, "greatest among modern women"; Theosophist Annie Besant; Catherine Breshkovsky, "Grandmother of the Russian Revolution"; Scientist Mme Marie Curie; Anarchist Emma Goldman; Helen Keller, "most perfectly triumphant of women"; Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Mme Sarojini Naidu, "first among Indian women"; Margaret Sanger, "indomitable advocate of birth control"; Authoress Sigrid Undset...