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These three phases of the greatest of scientific enigmas will be handled by professors eminent in their departments: Professor Harlow Shapley, who will discuss "Life Throughout the Universe", is director of the Harvard College Observatory and is noted for his theory concerning the expansion and contraction of variable stars. Professor E.C. Jeffrey G. '99, who will speak on "Early Phases of Terrestrial Life", is an authority on plant morphology, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Kirsopp Lake, who will close the evening with an address on "Life and Spirit", is Winn professor...
...names of today were unknown a decade ago. The post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...
Months ago the mad Perosi, greatest of all living liturgical composers, retired to a Franciscan monastery, where the Brothers of the Brown Cowl have lavished care upon...
...medulla " or core, source of adrenalin (TIME, April 4). Failure or insufficiency of suprarenal action causes various disorders, depression, neurasthenia, discolored skin and the so-called Addison's disease. The exact objective of Dr. Banting's new research is not known. He plaintively protests: " The greatest service people could render me would be to leave me alone to my work...
Place in Science. Dr. Steinmetz was not essentially an inventor like Edison, and his name is associated with few specific devices. He was probably the greatest authority in America on electrical theory and engineering mathematics. His special fields of research included synthetic geometry, vector analysis, alternating current, phenomena magnetics and hysteresis, dielectrics, transients and electrochemistry. But he had the knack of interpreting highly technical subjects to laymen, and wrote many popular scientific articles and books, besides no less than nine standard works on electrical theory and mathematics. He was past President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...