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...less than one. More important, he found that the ratio does not diminish steadily as the length of the arc is diminished, but in sudden jumps-from 1 to 0.94 to 0.86 to 0.80. . . . The changes in subatomic energy occur in lumps, and these changes he found to correspond to the diminishing jumps of Ratio of Arc to Chord. He hoped his theory might link relativity with the Quantum Theory, bring the energy processes of radiation under the relativist's geometrical picture of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tigers, Men, Stars, RAC | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...school training, not alone in primary, but in secondary grades as well. And the universities are rapidly opening their doors to the product of the ever-increasing secondary schools, instead of confining their entrants almost exclusively to graduates of the old "public schools," (such as Eton and Harrow, which correspond to American private preparatory schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Professor, Formerly at Princeton, Compares English and American Education | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

...TIME, Dec. 1) by Chicago's young President Robert Maynard Hutchins will be the School of Commerce & Administration. Last week it announced that it has abolished course grades and credits, as the College Division has already done. Beginning next year it will institute four comprehensive examinations, which will correspond to the School's four major objectives. The four: 1) (to be taken during the first six months of the course) an examination in the physical and socio-economic environment of business; 2) in the fundamentals of business-accounting, statistics, business psychology, etc.; 3) in problems and methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Business Interneship | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Said His Holiness last week: "Material light has not been lacking in the place from which spiritual light spreads to the world, but it has been dim. It is now multiplied in a worthy and satisfactory manner to correspond with new needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: White Flywheel | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

Conscientiously the English correspond ent of the London Morning Post filed an objective report of Futurist Marinetti's doings, added his personal conviction : "No man or movement can unwind spaghetti from the heart of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Futurist Food | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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