The Washington times., 1925-01-02
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SCIENCE
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,sicist at Columbia Elected
Succeed ]. McKeen Cat
tell, Retiring President

tell, Retiring President
bctor Michael Pupin, physicist,
Columbia University, was
led president of the National
bciation for the Advancement
cience, at the council meeting,
he New Willard Hotel, today,
ncceed J. McKeen Cattell.
fofessor Burton E. Livingston,
lohns Hopkins University, per-
ent secretary of the associa-
was reelected. Doctor w.
Humphries, of the Weather
Eau, was chosen general secre-
and John L. Wirth, of the
aegie Institution, was picked
treasurer.
Executive Committee Named
wv members of the executive
nittee elected today are B. NJ.
kar, of the Missouri Botanical
lens, St. Louis; Edwin B. VIII
of Harvard University, and
Aor Vernon Kellogg, permanent
ltary of the National Research
Acil.
ected to membership on the
lcil were L. o. Howard, of the
irtment of Agriculture, ard
/. MacDougal, of the Carnegie
tuition.
Free Verse" Upheld
Tree verse" the joke-butt of
lentional humorists, was upheld
a distinctive art form with the
Acteristic pitch cadence of prose
the temporal line groups OF
lentioual verse;" by Professor
/. Morris, of the University of
kigan, today.
lofessOr Morris went deeply into
subject, and gave a long list
leasons why free verse" could
lbe classified strictly as poetry
tiSarranged prose.
thn +. Voorhees,, meteorologist
he Weather Bureau, at Knox
Tenn, told where the rain
after it falls.
n winter" he said, sit escapes
Evaporation and runoff in the
Inns. In summer, by evapora-
by runoff and by transpira-
h appears that the possible ef-,
I've rainfall of this region will
lage from six to eight inches,
kh is enough to double the
ient average yield"
though several affiliated So
hs have concluded their meet
and have gone home, the
rican Association for the Ad-
Gement Of Science forged on
lrd the end of the seventy
h annual convention today. To-
program is varied, and tomor-
will see all loose ends gathered
Ind the conclusion of the great
ting.
lnsiderable attention was at
ted today to the meeting Of the
tropological section of the A. A.
s., In the National Museum,
Re studies of mankind are the
of papers by leaders in this
| of learning.
ght sections of the convention
Injecting today, and some will
lnue over until tomorrow.
Heredity Is CauSe.
ne of the features Of the
hropologicaI meeting today was
assertion by Doctor Adolph
Schultz. of the Carnegie In.
ition, that heredity and not
Prominent are responsible for
lnguishing characteristics Of the
7, such as big ears and big feet.
The distinctive features" said
Schultz. by which we can dis
luish Tom, Dick and Harry did
come about in the course of
hhood. but were present long be-
they were born.
The person with unusually large
n. for example. did not acquire
NJ distinctive feature by having
! ears pulled by a tyrannical par
but possessed more conspicuous
! + than other babies before birth. "
he old theory that the two
yes" of the body are never quite
al was confirmed ny DIR. Schultz
attributed to heredity, also.
Amy shoe dealer said he
ows that the right and left feet
bis customers are rarely of quite
same size. This individuality
bur feet can hardly be blamed
environment. since it exists in
person long before the church
Igns it a SOUL"
The popular fallacy about twins
hg absolutely identical at birth
, likewise blasted by the scir
who declared the resemblance
ho greater in unborn twins thar
pr they have been exposed to al
changes of a lifetime.
Concluding their sessions, the