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Only about six more real practice sessions remain for Captain Barrett and his men before the Big Blue team invades Cambridge. There remains much to be done, particularly in rounding out the offense, but the Michigan game produced a higher caliber of play by a Harvard team than has any other major game during Horween's four years at Cambridge Harvard was beaten at Ann Arbor, it is true, but it came back from the first trip to "Big Ten" territory with a heads-up attitude, and if left behind a profound respect for the work that Horween has accomplished...
Four foreign astronomers, directors and staff members of observatories in Canada, Norway, Holland, and Poland, have arrived at the Harvard Observatory to carry on researches in a number of fields, it was announced yesterday. Five men visiting from other nations have just left after pursuing their researches with the aid of the Observatory staff, it was also learned...
Professor Svein Rosseland has been called to Harvard as Lecturer in Cosmic Physics for one year. He is Director of the University Observatory at Oslo, Norway, and is one of the leading men of Europe in theoretical astrophysics. He is lecturing in Astronomy 11 here, a theoretical course in cosmic physics...
Scientists are not usually interested in philosophy or religion. Professional men, they are apt to find their profession exclusively engrossing. But Biologist John Scott Haldane, of Oxford University, is not content to breathe his last in the special atmosphere of his laboratory. He has attained a comprehensive view of life, reached "matured conclusions." The University of Glasgow invited him to lecture. He did, and this book, ambitious, anti-popular, significant, is the result. In it Biologist Haldane attempts to "bring consistency into the inheritance which has come to me individually in science, philosophy, and religion...
...more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems to me to imply a faltering in religious faith. . . . Men of science . . . will never accept any belief in supernatural interference. Belief in the self-consistency of the universe is for them equivalent, in ultimate analysis, to belief in the existence of God." Philosophy (religion) has a very practical importance "in bringing consistency into the relations between different kinds of knowledge...