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...ardent Sovialist: a talented musician anda owrld renowned mathematician the professor has earned a reputation as a free-thinker. He uses a spelling system of his own invention and often entertains his lecture audiences by performing on a five stringed cello which he developed himself...
...books of Bertrand Russell are a modern substitute for the Bible. One of the high priests of our day (a scientist, a No. i mathematician), his writing "is not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a practical problem merely as something to be talked about." Few deny the high morality of his lucid logic, which makes even his rational counsels of perfection sound like simplest common sense, but few could put these counsels of perfection into practice. At least his simplifications should be an antidote to confusion...
...Author. The fame of Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell will hardly be increased if he becomes third Earl Russell (he is heir presumptive). Philosopher, mathematician, he is great & good friend to Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, with whom he wrote Principia Mathematica, incomprehensible to laymen, to mathematicians a delight. During the War Russell's pacifist activities in the No Conscription Fellowship cost him his Cambridge lectureship, £100 fine, six months in prison. Twice married, he has two children (by his second wife), lives in Cornwall, where he conducts a school for children on his own educational principles. Clean-shaven...
...first batch of honorary degrees. Recipients: Frederick Hanley Scares, assistant director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Mt. Wilson Observatory, California alumnus (1895); a classmate, famed Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett (Manhattan's Bush Terminal Office Building, George Washington Masonic Memorial at Alexandria, Va.); Professor Florian Cajori, California mathematician...
Ernest William Brown, Yale mathematician, told the closing session of the meeting that earth's rotation, upon which man depends for his time measure, is running ahead of schedule. Due to this increased speed the earthly day is a fraction of a second less than 24 hours long...