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• Quote #109 (leicht divergierend:) "That Professor Goddard with his 'chair' in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution does not know the relation of action to reactio
  and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd....
• A Severe Strain on the Credulity As a method of sending a missile to the highe
  and even to the highest parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's rocket is a practicable and therefore promising device....
• Quote #108 As a method of sending a missile to the highe
  and even to the highest parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's rocket is a practicable and therefore promising device....
• If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.
  See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for....