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Albert Einstein ended two studious months at California Institute of Technology last week. At San Pedro, Los Angeles' harbor, he boarded the Hamburg-American San Francisco with Mrs. Einstein, put his pipe and violin in his stateroom with the luggage, and sought out the dining salon for "a German meal cooked as only Germans know how to cook...
...Many who attend are of that encyclopaedic turn of mind which, accepting as law the written page, declaims stereotyped phrases and frozen ideas; others are of the amiable twist that leads to futile bickering over details. The majority of those present have acquired their profound knowledge of affairs by studious cramming of text books and outline magazines; still more have never so much as visited their constituencies; and all are forced to comply in their discussions to the strict limitations imposed by the two day period and the carefully prearranged program. The mere physical character of the Model League precludes...
...scene in the saga of the Rover Boys surpassed in tension a scene enacted last week in the editorial office of the Spectator, undergraduate daily of Columbia University. At his desk was Editor Reed Harris, a dark youth of studious mien but tall, well setup. Around him stood some of his associates. Into the room, glowering, strode burly Ralph Hewitt, captain and quarterback of the football team, closely followed by even burlier William McDuffee, the team's centre. Ralph Hewitt had a copy of the Spectator in his hand. He was smoldering with anger...
...wanted to see what they were doing with electric lights at the Chicago Columbian Exposition. In 1919, after getting a D. S. M. for War work, he returned to General Electric, surprised everyone when he was made president of the company in 1922. His daughter Henrietta is as studious as her father was. She works in the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. His brother Herbert Bayard never was particularly studious. Nine years younger than Gerard, Herbert went to Harvard, returned to his hometown, St. Louis, to work for the Post-Dispatch. The family, which still owns one of the biggest shoe stores...
...Author has enriched his pages with painstaking scholarship, has attained some of the flavor of the historical novels of Scott and Stevenson. But only in the last chapters of The Blanket oj the Dark does his story drop its studious tempo, achieve the needed breathlessness of cloak-&-sword drama. Aged 55, John Buchan served in the War as London Times correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday...