Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catching continues to be Mitchell's biggest problem and this weakness will become more apparent today, since Penn boats the best back-stop in the league in Chuck Morris. Paul Doyle will be the likely Crimson starter behind the plate...
Collins looks at the problem in a far different light. "Why, it's just like alumni and societies providing scholarships. The boys get a college education and we get ball-players. Sure, it's a gamble, but it doesn't affect the colleges...
Well publicized faculty help to the state government might be valuable. At any rate Harvard has a clear cut problem of selling itself and its theories to the public. Whatever the means, the result should be such that whenever in the future a demagogue sees red attacks Harvard, his remarks will arouse laughter in Harvard and in the fraternal and patriotic organization as well...
Much of the clarity of the book lies in the method of approach to the problem of physics. The Mechanical Explanation of nature occupies the opening chapters, and how it was devised by Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, and others to account for phenomena as they saw them. Next is detailed the new facts about light and magnetics, and its replacement by the current theories of four dimensions, quanta, relativity, and the time-space continuum. Each problem is outlined as it arises in a logical approach, and each theory gets its day in court, with the difficulties that led to its formation...
...Einstein believes that Physics is in a bad dilemma at present, with one leg in the Field Theory and the other buried in Quanta. Investigation into particles of matter leads from descriptions of events in time and space to probability waves, and the problem of placing such waves in the field concept of space is a major one. Suppose that a solution is found; in what way are we better off? Dr. Einstein is not sure. "In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees...