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Explosions, flashes and blinding lights kept the audience startled and gasping when Professor A. B. Lamb G'03, director of the chemical laboratory, presented the chemist's viewpoint of heat at the fourth symposuim held in the Union Living Room last night. Performing experiments that ranged from simple illustrations of the effect of oxygen and nitrogen on flame to breath-taking feats that approached necromancy, Professor Lamp kept the audience in a continual flurry of excitement...
...other hand" he continued, "closer inspection may prove that there is more to his viewpoint than we had at first imagined. I don't see any risk in either case, since these speakers merely present ideas. It seems to me there is much more reason to allow them to speak to a group of trained men than to permit them to talk on street-corners...
...question of non-participation in war will be debated from a thoroughly modern viewpoint. Members of both the Liberal Club and the Military Science Department are expected to attend the meeting, and should take an active part in the discussion. It is even understood that a resolution will be proposed from one side of the house advocating the abolition of the Military Science Department at Harvard...
...France continue in this course," he concluded, "and before two years have elapsed she will have reconquered, from the economic viewpoint, the preponderating situation she enjoyed before...
...Albert Edward Wiggam-Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). An outspoken, thoughtful appeal to solve the eternal triangle of God, Man and the Devil through the instruments of Science now available and through new standards of conduct. Mr. Wiggam is a lecturer and professor. This is his first book-a powerful new viewpoint that does not gloss over the status of civilization with honeyed words of praise and glorification. The book is divided in two parts. The first part consists of five warnings to mankind: 1) that the advanced races; of mankind are going backwards; 2) that heredity is the chief maker...