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...Creeds Unite. The Jewish religion has had an influence out of all proportion to its numbers. It is still a vital factor in the life of the world and of the United States. Last week the Central Conference of Jewish Rabbis held its annual conference (Cape May, N. J.). Prof. Cronbach, of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, gave an address in which he compared the sociological claims of 42 different creeds, and declared that he found in all of them the same underlying principles of social justice, especially in connection with protecting women and children in industry, providing mothers...
Babylonia. The joint expedition of Oxford University and the Field Museum, Chicago, under Prof. S. Langdon, has uncovered the ruins of Kish, an early capital of the Accadian kings, eight miles east of the site of Babylon, including the great tower of the temple to the war god Ilbaba, built about...
Europe. The recent excavations at Pompeii, under Prof. Vittorio Spinazzola, have made greater progress than all previous ones. To date, 530 meters of street have been uncovered by modern methods, which preserve the architecture intact. Old-fashioned excavation was carelessly done by workmen, digging into buildings from below and bringing valuable material down in ruins. Today ashes and rubbish are removed from above, walls and roofs are strengthened and supported, and all details are preserved, including the brilliant original colors of the frescoes...
Koppanyi's work should not be confused with that of Prof. Paul Kammerer, also of the University of Vienna, whose experiments in the transmission of acquired characteristics have recently aroused widespread interest here and in England, some biologists going so far as to rank him with Darwin (TIME, May 12). Kammerer grew eyes in the proteus, a sightless newt whose eyes are mere rudimentary spots beneath the skin, atrophied through ages of living in deep marine caves. He did it by exposing the newts to red light in their watery home continuously for five years from birth. After several...
Married. Barbara Kemp, opera star, to Prof. Max von Schillings, general director of the (German) State Opera, at Berlin. He composed Mono, Lisa, in which Miss Kemp starred last season in Manhattan...