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...Nebular Hypothesis", Professor Mather, Geology Lecture Room...
...Nebular Hypothesis", Professor Mather, Geology Lecture Room...
...they will not be expected to consider the periods just so much holiday, applying themselves to the reading lists only at the very end of the period and then under the deft ministrations of an expert hired tutor. When they are supposed to be reading about Laertes and the nebular hypothesis and Socratian argument they will be expected to be doing so, not keeping social engagements in Boston or playing squash and hand ball...
...rather nebular conception of the so-called "Harvard manner" troubles us even more. Why, we query, should a man act like a gentleman in college? Or, for that matter, why shouldn't he? A person's polish, blithely spattered upon a well-thumbed pedigree, will hardly serve him in peddling bonds. Wherefor then, all this poifect gent stuff? Is it, too, an adaptation to environment? Perhaps, but since the wholesome prostitution of "good names" has become a disturbing realization to most of the Beacon Street element there must be something beneath the surface. The Harvard man must actually have...
...Swedenborgians. As everyone knows, Emanuel Swedenborg (originally Swedberg; 1688-1772) was one of the most original geniuses in history. He dealt capably and creatively with poetry, history, philosophy, art, geology, mathematics, astronomy (nebular hypothesis), crystallography, anatomy (texts on blood, brain and nerves); conceived an air-tight stove, a musical instrument, a submarine, a "mechanical carriage," a means of testing boats by models, a dock system, an air gun, a method of hydraulics. The last 28 years of his long life he turned to speculation on the human spirit, organized a code of conduct, pictured a continuous existence for the soul...