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Education for statesmanship is a new trend which was given impetus recently when announcement was made of Lucius N. Littauer's gift of $2,000,000 for a school of public administration at Harvard university...
...rays were seen to be coming in from the cosmos beyond Earth's blanket of air. Calculation revealed them as more penetrating than the gamma rays which emerge from radium at 3,000,000 electron-volts. Stopped by the War, the cosmic ray hunt started with fresh impetus after Peace. In the U. S., brilliant, imaginative Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology, who had won the Nobel Prize for isolating and measuring the electron, sank his recorders under 280 ft. of water in California. Some rays, after fighting their way through the atmosphere, had enough drive left...
From the shoulders of these two finds, atomic destruction and transmutation took fresh impetus the world over. Unencumbered by electric charges, neutrons as atom-wreckers are like wrestlers slippery with oil. They slide through the electronic field guarding the nucleus, do not swerve until they strike the hard core. Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who has an 85-ton magnet to play with on the University of California campus, produced a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second by smashing lightweight elements with deutons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen). With "slow neutrons" lately it has been found possible to produce gamma...
...elected to the board, the situation is the same. The routine details of publishing and editing the paper have been developed through long experience. Yet the new ideas, the new impetus which he may lend the paper are things which keep it alive and vigorous...
...less important that a truly liberal education include a story and explanation of one of the few branches of knowledge that seems able to contribute to a better life. If more persons fully understood the benefits that could accrue to society from a sensible application of scientific knowledge, the impetus towards universal destruction might well be stayed...