Science: A Parlor Game

Everyone is familiar with the ancestral guessing games wherein somebody leaves the room, etc. But it is seldom that the world is favored by an account of such a game played by so illustrious persons as Arthur James Balfour and Professor Gilbert Murray, famed Greek scholar. Yet such a game took place last week in London. After dinner, Professor Murray was invited to leave the drawing room. The other guests saw to it that he went completely through the next room, 36 ft. long, and into the empty dining room beyond, where the servants were...

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