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...years, he recently established with his friend André Hirsch the Rep-Hirsch Fund which awards 10,000 francs annually to the author of the most original contribution to ''astronautics." Russia has her Professor Nikolas Rynin. In the U. S. the only important practicing rocketeers are Dr. Darwin O. Lyon and Professor Goddard. Professor Goddard is now working on experiments at Roswell, N. Mex. under patronage of the Smithsonian Institution and a Guggenheim fund. His magnum opus is a proposed turbine rocket ship by which the exploding gases will drive propellers while the ship is in lower atmospheres...
...Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus), who lived 1,125,000 years ago. and not Pithecanthropus erectus, who was wandering around as late as 500,000 B. C., was apparently the first true man. Darwin and Lamarck to the contrary, evolution is uniform, centrifugal, creational. It has proceeded steadily (Darwin said a minute "jump" in a favorable direction would survive in the species). It has developed outward from within the geneplasm (Lamarck thought the germ was affected from without by the activities of the body or the environment). Variation of species is the result of an original creative pattern which was within...
...been adopted at Harvard where men from districts that ordinarily do not prepare for Harvard are admitted if they rank in the first seventh of their class, and other requirements are satisfied. Here is an unqualified selective process, not one that uses quotas but one that stresses competition. Darwin has shown conclusively that the struggle for existence is the cause of natural selection. Such should be the case in the colleges; for were only the most fit men accepted, it would not preclude the admission of men from many and varied localities. Natural selection contributes to the progress of education...
...Royal College of Surgeons' farm is close to the late great Charles Darwin's home, Downe House, at Downe, Kent. Buckston Browne, 81, a London surgeon who worships Darwin's memory, bought the house, restored it with Darwin's furniture and tools and gave the whole to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. That was two summers...
This syllabus of culture, or notebook of Durant, lists: ten Greatest Thinkers (Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Copernicus, Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Darwin) ; ten Greatest Poets (Homer, Author of the Psalms, Euripides, Lucretius, Dante, Lipo, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelley, Whitman); 100 Best Books for an education (approximate cost, $300; time required for reading: four years at seven hours per week, ten hours per volume). Syllabuster Durant reviews his favorite modern philosophers (Spengler, Keyserling, Bertrand Russell), his favorite modern literary lights (Gustave Flaubert, Anatole France, John Cowper Powys), fills up the rest of his 426 pages with comments on his trips...