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Also meeting in Chicago is the American Catholic Sociologist Society, before which Professor Sorokin will speak, and the National Social Science Honor society Pi Gamma Mu to which he will talk on "Social Functions of the School and the Main Defects of the Contemporary School System...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin To Address Chicago Convention | 12/20/1940 | See Source »

...Mathematical Aptitude Test, New Lecture Hall. Students who have not taken the Mathematical Aptitude Test or an equivalent (Mathematics, Beta or Gamma), will receive in their registration envelopes a request that they take this test. Special arrangements will be made for such students who must also take the Scholastic Aptitude Test...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Calendar | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

...sense impressions are connected by theorems and syntheses which cover more & more phenomena, so that the basic statements need be fewer (the cross section of the pyramid diminishes). Such progress was made, for example, when heat was found to be energy of molecular motion; and when light, X-rays, gamma rays, wireless waves, ultraviolet and infrared radiation were all disclosed as electromagnetic vibrations. At the pyramid's apex there should be a master synthesis embracing all physical phenomena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Baffled Sage | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Under the auspices of the Harvard Chapter of Gamma Alpha, a scientific fraternity, a discussion of "Production and Uses of Radio-activity" will be held at the annual symposium tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. "Modern Alchemy" will be the subject of the meeting, which is open to the public without charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 4/16/1940 | See Source »

...Ritter Span, invented two years ago by 20-year-old Andrew Mowbray Ritter, University of Michigan junior and Gamma Sigma's president, is a complicated back flip in which a performer leaps into the air, twists his body into a horizontal arc "which he holds momentarily," then lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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