Show But I Will Try to Be a Fair Ref Referee ree Between You and the Book D By WILLIAM OLIVER KR STEVENS In ID New York World The only other school in world the world where this pi pi-no pi o. o tics tice of officer teaching holds is at West Point but there it has been a apra tree tics to get younger officers officer's for duty in a certain subject who had stood high in in that subject while at the Point and older officers were detailed because because be be- cause of their previous experience in teaching that subject In some Borne subjects subjects sub sub- th the officers do not enter their classes before they have un undergone in ine instruction Instruction in- in e on how to teach the lesson of the day Furthermore the he period of duty there is longer than the average period spent by hy a naval ol officer at the Naval academy Thus while the s system is not riot ideal the teaching is done by officers who are Bre chosen because they do know kno something about the su subject But up to te the present many an officer at the Naval academy has bas been ordered overnight o to teach physics for example e who had lied expected expect expert ed to be assigned to ordnance Some are ordered to teach subjects in iu which they were notoriously low in their mid midshipmen days and have hate to get along as aa best they can CM It is isa a commonplace there that an officer opens his course with the remark Well gentlemen I dont don't know a ad d n d n thing about this subject but I will try to be a fair referee between you and the book Depend Upon It Nothing Is Haphazard Things Are Not Left to Chance By SIR Sm OLIVER LODGE in Scientific American The rhe antiquity of the solar system is fearful Life Ufe on the earth in M some me form or another has been going on nearly all aU that time But not for all that time has there been beep intelligent life as we know know know-it t now The ages of the tho earths earth's past seem to have been a sort of preparation for the life and n mind nd which now is and for the mind which is still to come rome Depend u up nylon on it it nothing is haphazard things are not ot le left t to chance Everything is amenable to law and order Everything E points to a rational rational ra ra- ra- ra plan of which we know neither the beginning nor the end but toward which we can help In III face of all that shall we allow illow ourselves to squabble about trivialities 1 I Or shall we realize that we are the heirs of all the ages ages that the desti destiny lY of mankind is being partly entrusted to us and that humanity lies has a aa potential future b beyond yond our wildest dreams dream 1 l |