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...have seen the amateur wireless crank fussing with his queer coils and instruments and many of us have wondered what earthly interest was to be found in listening to the queer little buzzings that were heard. Suppose that these little buzzings did convey some kind of a message, what of it? If messages were wanted the newspapers were full of them. Why go to all the bother of studying a lot of scientific stuff and spend hours trying hopeless experiments, when anything of importance could so much more comfortably and easily be read in the morning paper? There...
...wireless. It was a hopeless effort, for Mr. Marconi himself was having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities he was able to command. But as is always the case, failure only served to spur on the real dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast. When the queer properties of a piece of galena ore, or a crystal of silicon, carborundum and several other minerals was discovered, feeble little signals were occasionally heard, and this sealed the fate of many young men. They were able to communicate with each other at rare intervals over short distances, and once...
Nowadays things are different. College power is in the hands of adult authority, and at least a majority of the students go to colege with the queer idea, not of getting there as much as they can, but, by the selection of easy courses, of getting as little as is compatible with graduation. There are exceptions, indeed; but they are not very popular and they acquire no fame. That may be partly the fault of the newspapers, which pay so much more attention to football stars than to the winners of scholastic honors, but if superiority in learning made...
...course every one believes that he thinks clearly himself. So did the little Scotch girl, who said "Grandmother, all the world is daft but thee and me, and I think thee a little queer sometimes." No one really thinks clearly unless he has thought long and profoundly; unless he comprehends the point of view of those who do not agree with him; unless he has found out the limitations of his own principles; for all theories, principles, maxims, and rules of human conduct can be carried ad absurdum. They all have their proper limits, because at some point they come...
...various sorts and conditions of men to be found in every large university, perhaps none is more misunderstood' than the student who concentrates in science. Interested as these undergraduates are in problems not readily grasped by the uninitiated, they are not infrequently regarded by their classmates as rather queer specimens of humanity. They occupy, therefore, a very inconspicuous place in the organization of the student body. A few of them, it is true, have in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties proved themselves to be excellent athletes and agreeable companions. But the great majority are barred from participation in undergraduate...