Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-07
PRINCIPAL TERRELL TALKS
 ON TIME TO ROTARTANS

The Measurement of Time was the topic of an entertaining and instructive talk by Henry A. Tirrell at the noon day luncheon of the Norwich Rotary club on Wednesday at the Wauregan house.
 Mir. Tirrell in speaking of Time said : How many of us can tell exactly what time isl What is time? It Is queer, but the most noted scientists can not tell what 1t is, nobody knows. It Is the same as gravity, space and electricity, we know that 1t is so but we cannot de- fine it. The dictionary in defining it says that it is a duration, a period or a sea- son, but this does not define time ex- actly, only in a roundabout way Time is fixed tho same as space and Einstein Is right when he says time is the fourth dimension of space. We speak of the passing of tim3, but time does not move. Events take p.ace and the earth moves on it's axis and revolves around the sun but time is not moving.
 The old Greek myth about Chronos eating up his children was time consum- ing allthings. The passing of events is the measurement of time. Back in the old days there were water clocks, sand dials, sun dials and other means by which a certain period of time was meas | ured. Now we have machinery which measures it for us. We live and move 1 days, months and years. This is the same as in the early days of A. D., but since i then errors have been found in the meas ] urement of time.- There were once only | 29 1-2 days to the month.
 1 Then Ceasar found that there was s | decrepancv of 90 days in a number of 1 years He had the calendar revised and | it was then almost perfect until about i 1900 when when Pope Gregory diseov I | had the calendar revised again and tha
 is the calendar under which we live now but this is not exactly correct for wC lose one day in 5000 years, but that vii ] hay11y interest the present generation. Owing to the difference between th' 1 Catholics and the Protestants the Grego
 rian calendar was not adopted until 175.
 in EnAland. When it was finally adopt
 ed it was found that there was a diff 1 ference of II days. History tells us tha George Washington was born on Feb. P
 1731, but under the old calendar it wa really on Feb II, 1731 that he was born
 behind about four years so that accord ing to them we are living in 1925 instead
 of 1921.
 We celebrated the signing of the Dec
 laration of Independence on July 4th, bu the fact is that we did not really cele
 brate the signing of the declaration bu
 the passing of the vote to adopt reso
 lution to break away from. England. Tn declaration was not actually signed unt
 August 2nd.
 Mir. Tirrclps talk was received with ir
 tent interest and he was accorded heart 2 applause at the conclusion.
 The meeting was attended by about | members and guests and was one of th ? usual lively variety. The singing wa
 led by Bert Adams and was spirited including several quartette selections an
 chorus singing.
 The local members who attended tn T Dempsey-Carpentier fight sang parod
 dedicated to Dempsey Another origna song dedicated to William G. Park, wh i is representing the local club in Scotlan was sung by a quartette.
 Joe Weymouth, secretary of the clut
 gave the members heart-to-heart talk 0 , attendance and urged every member ] do his utmost to be present at every an , all meetings. MT. Weymouth also req
 a communication from William G. Par extending the best wishes to the clul Lucius Briggs presided at the bus mess session and Louis Porteous intrc
 duced Mir. Tirrell. At each place was
 favor from the Porteous 6 Mitchell Co,