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John Winthrop was an alchemist but an enterprising, open-minded one. Born in 1606 at Groton, England, he had attended Dublin's Trinity College, later dabbled in the law, spent five years junketing about Europe, encountered many a scholarly personage with whom he kept in touch by correspondence in Latin. When, at 24, he followed his father to the New World, he was undismayed by the fact that the colonies had no college, no scientific society, laboratory or library. He imported the first library and the first apparatus. His was the idea for the first chemical stock company...
Last night members of Kirkland House gave Ben Jonson's "Alchemist." They put on a play over 300 years old in the Elizabethan style and gave an amusing and thoroughly entertaining performance before the members of the House, the other House masters, President Conant, and many other prominent members of the faculty. Now even if the play had been poorly done, I would think the CRIMSON would critize it. Certainly enough space is wasted on prosaic reviews of ancient movies at the University. It may be argued that the play was privately given for a select audience and that...
Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements-carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years alchemists discovered only bismuth, zinc and phosphorus. Then scientific chemistry began By 1900, before which time perspicacious Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyeff figured that there must be 92 elements on earth, no more, no less, chemists had isolated 83. Last discovery of a tangible element, which could be handled and weighed, occurred in 1926 when Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois found Element No. 61 among some rare earths...
...Alchemist. Medieval in their great black robes and ermine tippets, a solemn bevy of French judges in Paris last week gave Monsieur Jean de Habdank Dunikowski a chance to prove in their presence that he can transmute other metals into gold by bombarding them with what he calls "Z-rays...
Switching on his Z-tube, Alchemist Dunikowski began to repeat the experiment which led several rich Frenchmen to lend him money, next led him to the Sante Prison. With a loud bang the Z-tube blew up. The French judges promised Alchemist Dunikowski (severely burned under his right eye) another chance, as soon as he can make a new Z-tube...