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...Princeton professor has at the latest discovered that the temperature on Mars is perpetually far down in the minus zero roll. This is taken as proof that there is no life on Mars. It explains something more. It explains Mars uncommunicativeness...
...than useless. The natural limits of mental capacity are soon over-run, and there is no room to cultivate original thought and imagination. A machine's efficiency is determined by the ratio of the energy applied to the power ultimately delivered. If the two are identical, the efficiency is zero...
...capacity will have little individual worth unless we learn to generalize our specific experiences and consign to memory only the fundamental and basic principles essential to stimulate original enterprise. So long as we only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator in which...
That warm friendships, heated arguments or feverish energy, are impossible when the mercury is playing tag with the zero mark...
This afternoon at 2 o'clock the Funny Fellows from Bow street will cross clubs on the second Varsity diamond with nine of the hardest thinkers in Phi Beta Kappa. Last year, Lampy had an off season, with a total percentage of zero games won; but today the Morse men will put on the diamond as active an aggregation as ever wielded the willow. The scholars, knowing they will need all A's to win, are keyed up for the occasion. The Lampoon's special battery, three speeds reversible and left-hand control, will start with Wentworth on the mound...