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...this little book, Professor Mather gives a straight-forward account of a scientist's attempt to come to terms with the Administrator of the Universe. Few men have been as successful in pointing out the link between religion and science. During many years it has been his fortune to help undergraduates and others, in public address and by private counsel, to see that scientific truth can not conflict with religious truth. Quick to discern the assumptions of both science and religion, he suggests that both adhere to an experimental fact-finding method of considerable severity, with open mind where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Important New Fall Books | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Jazz is characteristic of America", said Leon Theremin; Russian scientist, professor in the Physico-Technical Institute of Leningrad, Russia, and inventor of the ether-wave music instrument. "Jazz is very interesting. It has had an influence on music and I believe that in the future it will have a greater influence, especially from the standpoint of new soundings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAZZ CHARACTERISTIC OF AMERICA-THEREMIN | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...themes. If he has any "fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress an almost inhuman tenderness; a conversational philosopher who is said to be the author's particular mouthpiece. As such, he is a brilliantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medley | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

Died. Sir Horace Darwin, 77, English scientist, son of the famed Charles Darwin (the Origin of species); in Cambridge, England. Died. Baron Jean de Neuflize, 78, dean of the Regents of the Bank of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Faith. Venerable Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, scientist and spiritualist, preached a Sunday rhapsody. Dressed in his academic robes, a bible in his hands, his white beard faintly moving like a mystic voice, he cried his faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Glasgow | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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