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...children, but gets lost in most people later on." ¶Present-day physicists, Einstein believes, are so busy gathering facts about the innards of atoms that they have no time for the great, round, four-dimen sional universe. He lists the main steps toward understanding the universe. First (after Newton's useful but insufficient Laws of Motion) came Maxwell's work on electromagnetic fields: the effect that electrical charges have upon space. Then Einstein himself, with his Theory of Relativity, explained gravitational fields: the effect that mass has upon space...
Thomas S. Derr '58, of Newton and Weld Hall, was yesterday elected manager of the freshman track team. Derr will thus receive his numerals, and will be eligible for the sophomore managerial competition next winter...
...find--a pitching machine--is the creation of Stephen C. Currier, a Newton engineer who has been working with sporting equipment for the past three years. It works on a compressed air principle and is the only automatic machine of its type...
...Three Came Home" is a forceful and absorbing adaption of Agnes Newton Keith's 1947 best-selling account of her three wartime years with her small son in a North Borneo prison camp. Unfortunately, however, the makers of this film have placed an undue emphasis on the spectacular and more terrifying aspects of Mrs. Keith's imprisonment and, in doing so, have underplayed realism for the sake of melodrama...
...Bureau of University Travel is planning the following study programs under the leadership of university professors: Political Science, Comparative Government, Modern European History, Classical Backgrounds, History of Art, Architecture, Music Appreciation, and Backgrounds of Comparative Education. Inquire 11 Boyd Street, Newton, Mass...