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...ALASKA: Test oil wells are being bored. From one of them a column of soft blue clay flows, filling the six-inch pipe and rising to a height of five feet before tipping over. The rate of the clay flow varies with atmospheric pressure...
...forecasts the early attainment of complete directional control of radio. He is working to perfect a system by which radio messages will be received only by the persons for whom they are intended. His experiments, extending over a considerable period, will soon be put to the acid test on his specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument...
...flood of intelligence tests, which has poured out since the psychological tests in the army, has enabled examiners to reach any decision they wished, extremely positive or extremely negative. The most amusing results have been reached and varying doctrines have been propounded. But according to Professor Langfeld some measurement of intelligence is reaily important, and certainly most alluring. Even our keenest psychologists, equipped with all modern conveniences, have failed to devise a universal test, and the older philosophers went hopelessly astray...
Does Mr. See not know, his victims ask, that brain weight is no test of intelligence, that no one has yet discovered a demonstrable physical measure of brain power, and that so far as biologists and anthropologists can guess, intellectual. capacity is somehow related to the complexity of brain convolutions...
...abstract the transfer of Haughton from Harvard to Columbia will prove deeply interesting as a test of the absolute value of coaching intelligence to a football team's success. At Harvard Haughton was supplied with every modern convenience in the way of equipment, some of the greatest material in football history, and the curious Harvard spirit which presupposes supremacy. At Columbia his general coffers will be cramped in comparison, his material quite without Groton and Exeter training, and his constituency lacking in what may be termed the superiority complex. If Mr. Haughton constructs a first-class team on Morningside...