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...Honorable Bertrand Bussell, distinguished publicist, essayist, and scientist, will make his first appearance in Boston at Ford Hall, at 8 o'clock tonight. His subject will be "Science and Civilization." Professor Bliss Perry, Professor of English Literature, will preside...
...several times been a candidate for President, and is a man who amassed many votes. While I don't necessarily approve, I can see a reason for drawing a line in his case. Mr. Debs has been a perfectly orderly person for the last 30 years. Bertrand Russell, convicted on substantially the same charges that Debs was, has been taken back on the Faculty of Cambridge University, England", Professor Chafee concluded...
...Mathematics for 26 years at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, the college from which he graduated. In 1921 he served as dean of the faculty of science. Today he is a fellow of the Royal Society of England and also belongs to the School of English Realists of which Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore are two of the most prominent members. In 1922 he was the first recipient of the James Scott prize offered by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Among his publications are the "Principia Mathematica" in three volumes, "Principles of Relativity", and "The Principles of Natural Knowledge...
...North Whitehead, for twenty-six years lecturer on mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge is one of the lucky few whose coming will attract more than the usual amount of undergraduate attention. Besides being one of the foremost adherents of the school of English Realists, which numbers among its leaders Bertrand Russell, Professor Whitehead is a follow of the Royal Society of England, and was awarded the James Scott prize in 1922 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh...
...Louis Danval, a pharmacist at Paris was convicted of poisoning his wife with arsenic, after a quarrel. Chemists had found one milligram of arsenic in the woman's body. M. Dan-val was sentenced to life imprisonment in New Caledonia. Then in 1902 Gabriel Bertrand, French chemist, announced that arsenic is habitually found in the human body. Danval appealed, was released. He appealed also for rehabilitation but the French courts refused to grant this in 1906. By 1921 new evidence was available and he again appealed. The French courts appointed a committee of experts to report. They announced that...