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...else the purposes of a college education may be, one of them is to develop the reasoning powers of the student. To learn how to think, and to think accurately and rapidly, is one of the hardest tasks in the world, so says a writer on debating, while to expound the conclusions of one's thinking to an untrained audience so clearly that the audience understands the speaker's point of view, is one of the greatest accomplishments anyone can possess. Now practice in debating does just these things. There is no prescribed course so prolific of excellent and permanent...
...retained my human right to be curious about everything, my acquired interest in anything or anybody, and my constitutional privilege to speak my mind about anything I am taxed to support. On the other hand, I have not tried to prove something or improve anybody; exploit somebody or expound anything; point a moral or point with pride; sound a warning or forecast the future." In short, Dorsey wanted to get his mind Clear About Things. In the course of reading this 958-page digression you may not always agree that he has fulfilled his promises; his continued excitement may even...
...Jeanses left Pasadena last week (before the Michelson funeral and cremation) for Washington (a Carnegie Institution talk) and Philadelphia (where he will get the Franklin Institute's medal). Then he will lecture at Princeton, Yale, Harvard. He accepted another appointment, the Scientific Monthly's invitation to expound the Universe to Manhattanites the evening before be sails back to England.* Between lectures the Jeanses plan a visit with Lady Jeans's mother, Mrs. Annie Tiffany Mitchell of New London. Fellow guests at the Mitchell home will be Senator & Mrs. Hiram Bingham of New Haven. Senator Bingham...
...Vagabond knows one way in which he can free himself from the atmosphere of red brick. He can go to the Fogg Lecture Room at eleven this morning and hear Prof. Edgell expound the glories of French Gothic. He has been to this group of lectures on Gothic before, and he will doubtless go again, for if he should ever grow weary of the text of the lecture he will never tire of the slides which illustrate...
...performed in 1887. Last week two men announced that they had rechecked that experiment, obtained opposite results. One man, Dr. Dayton Clarence Miller, had made 175,000 more readings of his interferometer at Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland. His results showed a definite ether drift, which he will expound in April at the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. In Germany, the other ether detector. Dr. Georg Joos, professor of theoretical physics at Jena University, reported that he had obtained a negative result, upheld Dr. Einstein...