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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director Otto Struve of Yerkes would not say for sure that Wolf 424 is the sun's nearest known neighbor. It may be a double star, in which case the combined light of the two components would make it appear closer than it actually is. Parallax measurements requiring a year or more will be necessary to settle the contest between Proxima Centauri and Wolf...
...different manner. . . . He starts out from ideas that have arisen primarily in his own brain, or from arbitrary definitions of relationships between symbols. ... In so far as [his formulae] are found to be in accord with experience, he underlines this agreement with the greatest of emphasis, and makes it appear as though the results of experience have been established . . . only by virtue of his theory." If the dogmatic theorist runs up against experimental contradictions, he takes refuge in doubting the validity of the experiments...
...education attempts to cultivate children's minds and bodies, lets their emotions grow like weeds or wildflowers. The results of this neglect, think mental hygienists, appear in the appallingly high rates of U. S. divorce, crime and insanity, in a national jitteriness. Last week the American Council on Education published a report* proposing that the schools pay as much attention to children's emotions as to the three...
...readers remember the pioneer farmers of fiction. For one novel of the calibre of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth or Hamlin Garland's Middle Border stories, a thousand others appear and are forgotten within the month they are published. A few, like Ruth Suckow's novels of Iowa farm life, are praised but little read...
Translated from the Greek by Dudley Fitts '25 and Robert Fitzgerald '33, the production will be directed by William Berssenbrugge '37, who recently returned from England to take up the task. Dorothy Sands and Michael Linenthal '37 will appear in the leading roles...