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...have the same household gods and the same patron saints. We are all one. So each one of these meetings looks more and more like a family gathering. I wish that the American Congress were here and the American Senate to watch our proceedings and learn that the scientist and the engineer have discovered the great secret--greater than anything in electrical science or in any other science--the secret of how to lay the true foundation for a true League of Nations...
...amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here was a chance denied to stay-at-home ichthyologists by sea-dredgers of the omniscient and loquacious William Beebe type- a chance to exercise their knowledge by recognizing, perhaps to share the excitement of failing...
...half-bald and bushily mustached culprit thus honored by so informal a trial, was Dr. J. B. S. Haldane, a former reader in biochemistry at Cambridge University, a noted scientist recently much in the public eye*. His experiments and prophecies concerning ectogenesis (laboratory birth) long gave the impression that he believed birth by woman would eventually be done away with. It was therefore with consternation that his friends saw him named as corespondent in an uncontested divorce suit last December. At once the "Sex Viri" of Cambridge ousted him from his readership. His trial last week was an appeal from...
...present our unmanageable burden of knowledge seems to be leading us to a superficial, general knowledge or to increased specialization. While a certain amount of specialization is desirable and necessary in our complex civilization, it has certain important dangers. In the scientist and teacher it is almost sure to lead to such narrowness as that which has done more than anything else to kill interest in the clas- sics. And of even wider significance than this, intensive specialization destroys perspective and an ability to correlate the knowledge gained in the specialist's field with the other facts and phases...
...Bosis was formerly a scientist and received his degree in Chemistry at the University of Rome. He then turned to art and literature and is now one of the most promising youthful poets in that field. His father, Adolpho de Bosis the poet, began the new movement in literature along with D'Annunzio and Pascoll in their review, "II Convito." It was in this publication that D'Annunzio made his literary debut...