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Most contributors to Science (weekly) are staid men who avail themselves of the magazine's columns to write polite letters of criticism concerning the ideas in their fellow scientists' heads. In last week's issue, however, was printed with editorial hesitancy and apologies a letter from "An 'Umble Scientist"-anonymous because the author implied he was hoping for an appointment to the Federal Power Commission-criticizing Herbert Clark Hoover, President of the U. S. "Most scientific men," wrote an 'umble scientist, "were delighted when for the first time since George Washington an engineer became President...
Died. Professor John William Burgess, 86, political scientist, Civil War veteran, founder in 1880 of Columbia University's School of Political Science and dean until 1912 of its faculty, first Roosevelt Professor of American History and Institutions (1906-07) at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin; in Brookline, Mass...
Books. Anyone who reads Spanish should read these outstanding Cuban .books: Novelist Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes; Poet Jose Maria Heredia's Niagara; Scientist Carlos de la Torre's Historia Natural de Cuba...
Synthetic Life. When last month news slipped out that George Washington Crile, Cleveland medico-scientist, had created living cells, laymen gasped, scientists doubted (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week, scientists had a chance to see for themselves. Brain fats, proteins and ash from apparently dead body cells, placed in water containing normal body salts, formed minute structures which multiplied by dividing in two. Many still doubted synthetic life, spoke of a new scientific tool...
...them prevailed on Rachel to take a vacation she thought it almost sinful to leave her post, but when she got to her cousin's seaside cottage, among boys & girls her own age, she forgot her Mission and had a good time. Clive, poor but brilliant embryo-scientist, fell in love with her immediately, swept her off her feet. But their engagement grew longer & longer. When he got a flatteringly good job in Zurich Clive wanted Rachel to marry him and go there, but she refused to leave her mother, broke off the engagement. When he married Perdita instead...