Word: mcbain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summary follows: HARVARD 1932 TABOR Holland, r.f. l.g., McBain, Robinson Pattison, l.f. r.g., Welsh Brodie. c. c., Pierce Baskervill, White, r.g. l.f., Weis Bicknell, Moushegian, Weir, l.g. r.f., Clark...
...fine optimism pervades this symposium (only Stuart Chase is unqualifiedly pessimistic: he analyzes the passivity of fun?listening to radio instead of doing amateur singing, fiddling), but the optimism is qualified with a recognition of arrant abuses, grave dangers. Thus, the Webbs on Labor, McBain on Law and Government, Winslow on Health, Dorsey on Race, James Harvey Robinson on Religion, Lewis Mumford...
...absorptive power of charcoal for gases. It has been only in very recent years that its importance has been realized when absorption has been responsible for dyeing cloth with ease and economy, and gas masks were invented, depending solely on the principle of the absorption qualities of charcoal. Professor McBain exhibited very many interesting examples of dyeing showing very peculiar colors and shapes that resulted from tests applied to find the absorption qualities of commercial dyes...
...facilities for scientific research in Europe as a whole and in England in particular are greatly exaggerated" said Professor James W. McBain yesterday in an interview for the CRIMSON. "Americans seen to feel that a scientific education is not complete until a certain period has been spent in study in a foreign country. Why anyone should choose to leave the greatest laboratories in the world is difficult to understand...
Professor McBain believes that the important factor is not which country discovers the most facts but the importance lies in what the discovery may be Kor science is no longer a secret and every one in contributing all that he can and holding nothing back