CLASS OF 1898
During January Albert Smith was a delegate to New York of the American Society of Civil Engineers and took an important part in the discussion of this national organization. During the period of the Convention he and Ted Leggett got together for luncheon and a '98 talk-fest. Albert enjoyed also visiting the commodious offices of the Western Electric Company, of which Ted Leggett is an official.
Mrs. Joe Carney has been at the Deaconess Hospital in Boston for a slight indisposition, and has been under the watchful care of Harry Goodall.
Dick Marcy has been steadily improving with his injured leg, and hopes to be 100% well eventually.
Bob Marden is not taking his usual trip to Florida this winter. He told me he had other use for his funds.
George Greene, son of our classmate, this year is working his passage around the world on a steamboat. Next year he hopes to renew his studies at Dartmouth, entering his sophomore year.
In a recent issue of the Boston Herald appeared a brief article entitled "Einstein Amazes Scientists by his New Concept of Universe."
"No methods are known of investigating in an indirect way without integration," he said in commenting on his unified field theory.
"I offer it to you like a closed box, and as one who does not know what is in it," Einstein said.
"While it appears like a closed box, we hope to have the cover off soon and see what's in it," replied Dr. Walter S. Adams, director of the Mt. Wilson observatory. It was Adams who established one of the astronomical proofs of the principle of relativity.
"Now what can you tell us of the applications of the unified field theory to cosmology?' Adams asked.
Einstein, with a quizzical smile, replied with his momentous announcement that the old symmetrical spherical space concept of the universe could not exist.
In the general excitement the professor found he had exceeded his time by half an hour, and rushed off to another engagement.
"There is some real meat in that," said Dr. Adams, as the astronomers and physicists made plans for further conferences with Einstein on his new concept.
One interpretation of his remark was that it also implied no "closed space" for the universe could exist.
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