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A literary philosopher with a theatrical ancestry and a chemical education is James Medbery MacKaye of Dartmouth College. Last week he spellbound the American Philosophical Association, meeting in Manhattan, with his picture of a dynamic universe. The philosophers applauded the MacKaye universe as more perceivable and understandable than Dr. Albert...
Mr. Mackaye says there is an ether. But it is not static like Professor Miller's ether. The MacKaye ether is composed of helter-skeltering radiations. Like light his radiations move in all directions, and with the same velocity (circa 186,000 mi. per sec.). They have a superfrequency...
With this conception of an interspacial sea of turbulent radiation, Mr. MacKaye was able to adduce 17 phenomena which the relativists describe with their inconstant dimensions, but which he believed could be measured with the classical constants of time, space and motion. Scientist MacKaye, 57, is brother to Percy Wallace...
More versatile than they was their father, the late James Steele MacKaye (1842-94), painter, actor, playwright, producer, lecturer on esthetic philosophy, inventor. His Hazel Kirke (1879) ran longer than any U. S. play until Frank Bacon's Lightnin' (1918). He organized the first U. S. school of...
"Driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation I at last took up the work of their defense"-thus Mrs. Chapman on behalf of the Southern Mountaineers; and Outlander Mackaye is no doubt one of those who drove her to it. Certainly two interpretations could not differ more radically...