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THE.COLLEGE NEWS



SENIOR TEAM WINS FINAL ,
GYMNASIUM MEET



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Eleanor Sullivan, ’24, won the second
team individual championship with 17.6
points. M. Woodworth, ’24, tame. second
with 16.9 points, and S. Carey, ’25, with
15.1 points.

The score for the different events was:

FIRST TEAM

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BR a ae Oh yi eek, 53.3
So WMO is hsb s vis ae SS 52.7
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SEGOND TEAM ,
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EINSTEIN’S EQUATION GIVES RISE
< TO NEW PHYSICS

Atoms and their importance in the .pro-
duction of energy were stressed by Dr.
Berg, head of the Electrical Engineering
Department at Union College and succes-
sor to Dr. Steinmetz, in his talk’ to the
Science Club Friday evening.

Electrons are pictured in the new physics
in which everything is reducible to pro-

tons and electrons as almost knowing what

was expected of them and responding as
best they were able. There is a disagfee-
ment between the chemiist ‘who Says the
electron is still and the physicist who de-

clares it to be whirling about its nucleus [

with a velocity half that of light. Many
theories were shattered by the equations of
Einstein, among them that. of the inde-
structibility of matter and the conception of
anything as solid. A gram of anything,
according to Dr. Berg, has as much po-
tential energy as eight and a half mil-
lion pounds of coal. The danger here lies
in the fact that release of such energy

* would be uncontrollable.

Bohr, accepting the work on the atom

by Rutherford, managed to change the]

orbit of an electron by bombarding the
atom with just the right charge from a

- radio tube. The atom did not take the

charge, but energy, thus swelling its orbit.

The simplification of physics is its. debt
to Einstein, who has incorporated his the-
ories into ten differential equations. His
three basic assumptions are that things
look different to people in different posi-
tions, that equations that apply to motion
should. apply to immobility, and the velocity
of light in free space. To him there is no
force of gravitation.



UNDERGRADUATE ASSOCIATION
AMENDS CONSTITUTION
Annual dues will take the place of assess-
ments, according to the vote of the Under-

: graduate Association at a meeting held last

Monday in Taylor.

The Association voted an assessment of |

sixty-five cents, passed at a previous meet-

ing, and that the debt owed to the Under- |,

graduate Association by the Self-Govern-
ment Association be cancelled. The con-
stitution was amended to the’ effect that
the vice-president of the Association should
be elected from the Junior class and that
the first Junior member of the advisory
board be elected by the Association and

be automatically chairman of the Cut Com-

LABOR PARTY BRINGS UNIONS
AND INTELLECTUALS TOGETHER



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the Labor Party, and found an outlet for
their religious ideals in practical social re-
form. The large mass of supporters were
trade-unions, organized to fight for higher

.wages, whose leaders were many of them

lay-preachers of John Wesley’s Methodism,
chosen for their ability to.think and influc
ence others—still the strong element of the
religious. To these unions:were added the
intellectuals who gave them prestige and
brains, among them Bernard Shaw, H. G.
Wells, and Mr. and Mrs. Sidney..Webb,
who collecteg and ordered facts of the so-
cial order. The unifying member was, of

course, Ramsey MacDonald,

moral elevation and culture, and the most

widely travelled man at the head of any

-|-present..covernment.

A government thus formed should be
able easily to avert the revolution that was
awaited at its instigation, and start a new
éra of peace.



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MICHAEL FARADAY
1791-1867 .

Apprentice toan Englfsh book-

binder. Attracted the atten-
tion of Sir Humphrey Davy,
becoming his assistant. “The
greatest experimentalist of all
times,” se vs one. biographer.
The electrical unit Farad was
named for him.
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In 1880 the Edison
Electric Illuminating
Company, of New York
City, installed a genera-

tor of 1200 lamps cap-
acity, then considered

a giant. By continuous
experimentation and re-
search the General
Electric Company has £
developed generators

900 times as powerful

as this wonder of forty

years ago.



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What’s the use of it?
Michael Faraday saw the real beginning
of the age of electricity nearly a century
ago when he thrust a bar magnet into a

coil of wire connected with a galvanometer
and made the needle swing.

Gladstone, watching Faraday’ at work in
his laboratory, asked, ‘““What’s the use of
it?” The experimenter jestingly replied,
“There is every probability that you will
soon be able to-tax it.” The world-wide use
of electricity that has followed the Faraday .
discovery abundantly justifies the retort
to Gladstone.

Faraday’s theory of lines of force is con-
stantly applied in the Research Laboratories
of the General Electric Company in de-
vising new electrical apparatus of which
Faraday never dreamed. Every generator

and motor is an elaboration of the simple « |

instruments with which he first discovered
and explained induction. |

GENERAL ELECTRIC