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When will the pendulum begin to swing' the other way? When will the American people become participants in rather than lookers...
There was a time when our ancestors were charged with not having lived up to the reputation which tradition and the historians had bestowed on them. Then, the burden of proof was on them to show that their place in our school text books was deserved. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. The mayor of New York has appointed his Commissioner of Accounts, Mr. Hirshfield, to conduct an inquiry on historical text-books. It is not now a super-idealization of our ancestors which is supposed to be a corrupt influence, but rather the interpretation of early American...
...dormitories, may eat far into the core of any institution, is undeniable. But is the adoption of the imperative made in a single instance, when it is the usual form for all regulations, sufficient grounds on which to foretell the unavoidable decay of our College? Does not the pendulum of progress move through its grand sweeps in a series of minor oscillations? Any day might mark the turning point for the worse, as many before now would have done had not the morale of the college swept past them to better things...
...There are, however, other phenomena in physics of coordinate importance with those of geometry, namely, the phenomena of vibrating systems, of which the pendulum is a familiar example. The simplest type of oscillatory motion is governed by a differential equation of the second order, and two of the solutions of this equation are the functions sin x and cos x. By means of the differential equation the leading properties of these functions can be deduced with ease, and thus the foundations of trigonomemtry are laid...
Much glory has been credited to the oil geologists. While, up to about ten years ago, even the large companies had little faith in the value of services rendered by an oil geologist, the pendulum has recently swung to the contrary extreme, and oil geologists have been given too much credence. Oil investors seem to have been fascinated by the romance of geology, and to have assumed in many cases that geological predictions were infallible. Of course all that the most experienced geologist can do is to give the best professional advice as to where to lease and to drill...