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Star gazers in Germany have sat comfortably back in their planetaria (TIME, Feb. 13) and watched the earth move round the sun, the solar system gyrate. A lecturer has stood beside a colossal intricate mechanism, a steel cylindrical apparatus about 25 feet long with a great steel sphere at each end, bulbous with electric eyes. These were the stars and planets; each with its own motor to send it through any. desired orbit. Upon the huge domed ceiling, 75 feet across, the professor could project the sky as it looked to three shepherds of Judea on a certain cold night...
...Corporation as a settlement of the Stadium question is a compromise, with concessions to two opposing parties. Critics of the proposed enlargement will find in the enclosure of the open end of the Stadium no alarming stimulus to huger crowds and to overemphasis of football beyond its proper sphere. There will be a slight gain in seating capacity to satisfy the advocates of progress along sport lines, and at all events the plan will insure a certain permanence of the status of the Stadium infinitely preferable to the old haphazard system of temporary stands...
...teens. Before he was 30, he was charged with administering his father's whole considerable estate. Thereafter he ruled and expanded an industrial empire constructed of steel, railways, oil, coal, electricity, insurance, ships, bridges, plate glass, aluminum. In 1920, this empire of Mellonia was dominant in a sphere of industries with some...
...fifth of these were on the program of the Division of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, the longest program of any of the 16 divisions. This division united with the Organic Division to give a symposium on "Atomic Structure and Valence," officially announced as "probably the most notable in this sphere of pure science ever held in the United States...
...elsewhere on a larger scale. The students of a university are players taking part in a dummy scrimmage. They are going through the motions, and in doing so they may plan to meet emergencies which may never come. They can make mistakes which would be fatal in a larger sphere of life but which, after they are made, may be stored up as profit for the future. Knowledge gained from observation and from the acquisition of facts may be illumined by imagination that comes from speculation on this knowledge...