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...exodus of professors and researchers from the universities to the patronage of commercial interests. Large businesses attract scholars away from, their duty of teaching American youth to a place where they can work comfortably and independently as an advertisement to the broadmindedness of the particular firm," Dr. C. G. Darwin, F.R.S., professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and a grandson of the great English naturalist stated in a discussion with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Darwin, who is giving a course of lectures on the newest physical theories at the Lowell Institute in Boston, expressed these opinions...
...years this presidency has belonged to Darwin Pearl Kingsley, 73. It will soon be conveyed to Thomas Aylette Buckner, 66. Mr. Kingsley will become chairman of the board, a post created for him. With him Mr. Kingsley will carry the memories of his early adventurous days in the roughneck towns of Colorado; also his secret hobby (he is a member of the Hobby Club): Shakespeare. He owns four early folios, including the fabulous first, picked up at Quaritch's in Piccadilly. In the library of his office (in his company's new building on the site of Madison...
...were last week making preparations to leave the earth. Inventor Maurice Poirer of Burbank, Calif., fired a miniature moon-plane from the top of a mountain, watched it crash to the bottom of San Francisquito Canyon. In Italy a 132-lb. rocket designed by another U. S. rocketeer, Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, exploded, seriously injured four mechanics. In Vienna, the Meteorological Institute of Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society, an organization of lunar and planetary aspirants whose members include Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark...
Alicia Patterson, aviating daughter of aviating Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson (New York Daily News, Liberty), left Sydney, Australia, accompanied by a fellow Chicagoan, Elizabeth Chase, to fly across the interior of that continent. Their destination: Darwin, North Australia, 1,900 mi. northwest of Sydney. En route they planned to stop at an oasis, hunt kangaroo...
...practical life, his desire for isolation. Louis Pasteur (1822-95) French chemist, obtained protection by marrying the rector's daughter of Strasburg Academy while he was professor at the University of Strasburg. Emma Wedgwood of the English pottery family became the wife of her cousin, young Charles Darwin (1809-82). Although she loved theatres, gay parties, she was very religious, regretted that Charles was not. He made her promise, however, never to interfere with his work on Evolution. During acute attacks of his 40 years' ill- health she was constantly near his bedside at night, corrected proof sheets...