Word: karapetoff
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...best progress is in dynamic equilibrium of various views and for that reason, instead of agreeing with a certain party, I always try to find a third solution," declared Professor Vladimir Karapetoff in a recent interview...
Professor Karapetoff visited Harvard a few days ago and gave a talk on "Engineering." He is nationally known as a free-thinker and Socialist. His views on life are unusual and he further expressed himself by saying, "Polygamy is not naturally unlawful. Nature meets her ends in this way and does it more skillfully than we do in our way. We have cannibalism in nature, and this brings up the subject of 'Thou shalt nots', which rule cannibalism unconventional. However, if we had no conventions at all, within a few generations a new set of rules would be formed...
Born in Petrograd in 1876 Professor Karapetoff received his education in Germany. For some time after his graduation he served as consulting engineer for the Russian government and was an instructor in electrical engineering in three Russian colleges Coming to the United States in 1900, he served as consulting engineer to various manufacturing concerns and in 1904 became a professor of electrical engineering at Correll University...
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