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...Science last week Dr. Ives declared flatly that his experiment "does detect the ether." He admires Einstein's genius, but he is not constrained to think the Master infallible. In a complicated argument, he undertook to show that the relativistic abolition of the ether is based on a mere convention of measurement. Other conventions of measurement could have served just as well, and they could have been based on an ether as a fixed frame of reference...
...notes or reviews covering reading period assignments is especially objectionable," the Dean's Office said. The statement from University Hall went on to say that the Dean's Office has requested "vigilance" by instructors correcting examinations in order to detect any tutoring by students...
There are probably a lot of people who don't believe this and maybe there is room for honest disagreement between them and the History I staff, which has issued statements to the effect that "canned" answers were easy to detect. At any rate, there will be a lot of people going to tutoring schools this mid-years, and quite a few of them will pull through. Even so, they're playing a dangerous game of hide-and-seck where all the best hiding places are known only to the professor...
Another specific job is to warn of thi approach of war gas, so there is a committee called the Union Feminine Civique et Sociale which trains women sniffers (flaireuses) to detect nearly odorless gasses by smell without getting killed by taking too deep a whiff...
...there is a movie fan living who does not know who killed Lawyer Crosby in the wall behind the bookcase, The Cat and the Canary has been imitated often enough for even cinemamateurs to detect The Cat by its feline smile, before it gets the bird...