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Such statistics are not new. The late Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) recited similarly as early as 1921 when he published The Engineers & The Price System Economist Stuart Chase, Veblen's friend has been writing similarly since. But last summer a tall, middle-aged man named Howard Scott with a wide-brimmed hat and a prodigiously rapid, sharp, agile tongue, was being received and handed around by alert tycoons, notably Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip. From one drawing room and dinner to another he moved everywhere causing gasps of amazement, scowls of worry, questions of deep and inquiring respect...
Another light of learning already with Dr. Flexner's Institute is Professor Oswald Veblen, Princeton's mathematician. Mathematics is a brace for holding apparently unconnected phenomena together. For ordinary purposes three prongs of that brace suffice-length, breadth, height. But for profound science more grips on reality are needed-a variable time, for example And not only many grips are needed, but flexibility in their operation. The mathematical machine, most solid of the sciences, is constantly acquiring new links and kinks. One of its cleverest engineers is Professor Oswald Veblen...
Died. Thorstein B. Veblen, 72, of Menlo Park, Cal., social theorist (Theory of the Leisure Class [1899], An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation [1917]); uncle of Princeton's Oswald Veblen, mathematician; in Palo Alto...
Under the provisions of the gift, Professor Veblen will devote most of his time to creative research, but he will also deliver a series of pictures for graduate students...
Professor Veblen, an authority in projective geometry has been a member of the Princeton Faculty since 1905 and a full professor since 1910. In addition Professor Vebler is a member of the Board of Trustees of the recently organized National Academy Foundation of Research of which Secretary Hoover is Chairman...