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...educational world as being not only an able scholar, but a sensible and efficient administrator. This life of Harvard's Twentieth President, Mr. Land has designed "to be merely an introduction of Dr. Hill to the world he left forty-two years ago." Few today are left who could expound the educational and mathematical theories of this man who, at the age of forty-four, was called to head Harvard in a times when changing educational trends played as important a part as they do today. And therefore this book is more of an introduction than an interpretation...
...same thing which has aroused public interest in economics was the chief topic of interest to the economists: money. One afternoon 3,000 pundits crowded the walls of the ballroom of the Benjamin Franklin Hotel to hear Professor Warren expound his theory of the relationship of the gold supply to price levels, that the cause of the Depression was that prices outran the supply of gold in the late boom. It was his first public pronouncement since he became adviser to the President. When he had done, the 3,000 listened just as eagerly to Professor Kemmerer who has taken...
...potent development of this idea. He replaced the classical equations for electron motion with new differential equations similar to those which describe the wave motion which constitutes light and sound. Thus the atom is conceived as a positive nucleus wrapped in a throbbing field of negative electricity. To expound these ticklish ideas to U. S. scientists slim, smallish, pleasant-spoken Dr. Schrodinger journeyed to the U. S. few years ago, lectured at Caltech and other universities in excellent English. Born and educated in Vienna, he was professor of theoretical physics at Stuttgart and Zurich before joining the faculty...
...Geneva, Wis. cottage, went away before he returned late from a political meeting. Said Progressive La Follette to newshawks: "I want you fellows to know that the mere fact that there are a couple of fellows hanging around with guns is not going to prevent me from continuing to expound my economic and political theories...
...outgoing Assistant Secretary of State its editor. Other sponsors of the magazine were Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey, NRA Consumer Board chief, her brother William Averell Harriman, Union Pacific board chairman, and Virgil V. McNitt of McNaught Syndicate who was to be executive editor. The weekly will support and expound the New Deal's politics and economics "in plain square-toed English,'"' according to Publisher Astor who said he and Dr. Moley had been concocting the magazine for months. Each week since June Dr. Moley has been writing a rather stuffy syndicate article called "The State...