CLASS OF 1898
"Mush" Jones wrote from Miami Beach, Fla., recently, stating that Mrs. Jones, daughter Joan, and himself have been spending a very pleasant winter in Florida. They expected to arrive home in Rochester, N. H , sometime in May.
"Ich" Crane was elected to the Dart- mouth Alumni Council for three years to represent the Dartmouth Secretaries Association. Many felt, as I did, that this was the very best selection that could be made from that group, for Ich is in a position to be exceedingly helpful to the Association and to the College.
The Secretary attended the 27th annual meeting of the Secretaries Association held in Hanover on Friday and Saturday, May first and second, and had pleasant visits with Fred Lord and Ich Crane.
I want to add my personal word in this column that we all pitch in and help our most worthy classmate Ted Leggett on the Alumni Fund. He is worthy of the help of every member in the class for the labor of love he has carried on in such a faithful way for many years. May we all help him to keep up the splendid record that he has encouraged '98 to maintain!
You will be interested in the following letter from Adams:
April 18, 1931
My dear Patey
I should find it much easier to write than to talk to you right now, as I have just had a tonsil operation, and about all I can let out is a sort of husky croak. Apparently in these operations it is about an even thing whether the patient will be able to swallow anything before he starves to death: just now I should feel like betting on the starvation end, but statistics seem to be against it.
Einstein's visit to Pasadena was a curious and interesting experience both for himself and those who saw him frequently. He is a most simple-minded and kindly person with a keen sense of humor, and his reaction to the flood of publicity and the flocks of reporters and photographers was one of somewhat amused bewilderment. The things he enjoyed most were those done on the spur of the moment when he could run away for a talk with a friend or two and drop out of the endless string of luncheons, dinners, and public engagements. His visit to Mount Wilson was arranged very quietly, and he had a fine time sitting up most of the night to look at all sorts of objects with the 100-inch telescope and finally going home only under protest. One other interesting picture I have is of Einstein and Michelson sitting together on an old army cot in a little hut forty miles south of Pasadena discussing the details of Michelson's great experiment on the velocity of light.
Einstein's object in coming to Pasadena was to meet and discuss his problems with the group of men here and to familiarize himself with the work in the laboratories of the California Institute and at the telescopes on Mount Wilson. With the theory of relativity established as firmly as it is, his principal interests lie first in the working out of a great single mathematical theory to include gravitation and all electromagnetic phenomena, his so-called "unified field theory," and second in forming a theory of the universe as a whole which will conform to recent astronomical observations. The first of these especially is a problem which seems almost superhuman in the difficulties it presents, but Einstein is certainly the greatest scientific genius since Newton and will doubtless go far toward its solution. It has been a great privilege to watch the way in which his mind works when he deals with these fundamental questions of nature. He has a profoundly philosophical and mathematical mind, but is keenly alive to the value of all kinds of
observational evidence to test his theories. His personality is one of the most delightful I have ever known.
My brother and I have had a pleasant visit from Dr. Jesse Marden '95, who was for years a medical missionary in Turkey and is now working in Greece. Our combined opinion of the Turk is remarkably simple and unanimous.
With best wishes,
Sincerely yours, WALTER S. ADAMS
Mount Wilson Observatory,Pasadena, Cal.
Secretary,57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass,
