Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 35: April, 1961 Inscriptions in Greek, Latin, and German hang on a wall of one of the new chemistry laboratories in Johns, where advanced research in crystallography is being conducted. Perhaps they have been placed there as a sort of beau geste, but they symbolize in their small way the essential unity of the sciences and the humanities, the common heritage of our Western world which they epitomize. All learning is one, and there need be no dichotomy between Bagby Hall, where the sciences are taught, and Morton Hall, where the other disciplines are housed. Alfred North Whitehead has writ ten, In his youth the born poet often wavers between science and literature; and his choice is deter mined by the chance attraction of one or other of the alternative modes of expressing his imaginative joy in nature. It is essential to keep in mind that science and poetry have the same root in human nature. Poets have always been scientists and scientists have always been poets in the common pursuit of beauty just beyond the horizon of the eye and out of physical touch, declared John Lear in the Saturday Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.