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Prominent among the changed attitudes of the undergraduate today is a marked increase in social responsibility. The inertia implied in resignation to a system of laissez-faire is being challenged by a scientific search for that form of society most conducive to the common good. The undergraduate's seal for earning a living is being replaced by a desire to participate intelligently in later civic activities...
...week Vincent Sheean followed his best-selling (100,000 copies) autobiography with a volume which, while it seemed less likely to enjoy popular favor, was even more clearly in the nature of a call to readers to consider seriously the future, to appreciate fully the consequences of social irresponsibility, inertia and misjudgment...
...should be betraying our heritage if we looked forward to a period of complacent inertia...
...does not work. Speculation and intuition are supremely necessary. What sets Dr. Einstein apart is the quality of his intuition. There have been abler mathematicians than he. But from a very few observations-the constancy of light's speed in space and the equivalence of gravitational mass and inertia-he divined how the cosmos was made. He did not, like Newton, invent mathematics to describe it but borrowed the mathematics of Riemann, Fitzgerald, Lorentz and Minkowski...
...brain in some Colgate students, added the following to the A. M. A.'s explanation: "We still have to discover a definite scientific basis for the practice of sleeping head forward on trains. . . . Hemastatics may justify head forward position, since with the head forward the fluid inertia of the blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would not necessarily make the sleep one whit more refreshing, in fact, possibly the exact...