Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1899 — Scientist Fooled by Students. [ARTICLE]

Scientist Fooled by Students.

In his lecture on magnetism Lord Kelvin used to define an ideal magnet as “an Infinitely long, infinitely thin< and longitudinally magnetised bar. - The bewildered students in the back benches always received this definition with noisy* Jramplng of feet, and Kelvin would shout sharply: “Silence!” Before the end of the session the definition and reprimand had been repeated so often that one day the students entered into a plot, and when the definition was given they did not tramp as usual. Kelvin, however, from force of habit, shouted “Silence!” just the same.