Buxton Lodge, 20 The Vineyard, Richmond

He takes this opportunity of saying that, since coming to Richmond, he has been the recipient of a First-class Diploma from the Tailors' School of Art - a much coveted distinction.

... the new organisation by which it is hoped that fresh vigour may be put into games, and into School life in general.

I was at Oxford University. I was sort of a strange case. I had first of all taught myself Pitman's shorthand. Secondly I had fallen in love with relativity, and I had taught myself relativity because there was no one at Oxford who was giving any lectures on it. I was neglecting my regular course work, and I would have been in quite a sad situation if it hadn't been for the fact that in my last year there was an exchange of professors: G H Hardy, who was then at Oxford, went to Princeton for a year, and Oswald Veblen, who was at Princeton, came to Oxford for a year. And it just so happened that Veblen was interested in what he called projective relativity.

In this paper we show that the formalism of O Klein's version of the five-dimensional relativity can be interpreted as a four-dimensional theory based on projective instead of affine geometry. The most natural field equations for the empty space-time case are a combination into a single invariant set of the gravitational and electromagnetic field equations of the classical relativity without modification. This seems to be the simplest possible solution of the unification problem.

It has long been known that according to the relativity theory a purely gravitational field, if spherically symmetric, must also be static. The question arises as to whether the same is true for a field of gravitation and electromagnetism; in particular, can we have spherically symmetric waves in the absence of matter? We shall show that such waves cannot exist and that indeed the field must be a static one; and furthermore we shall find the most general spherically symmetric field permitted by the field equations in the absence of matter.

H P Robertson had open house once a week at his apartment with his wife. I used to go there regularly as did various others; there might be half a dozen or more. It seemed as if many of them found this a home away from home because they were not indigenous Americans.

I saw in the papers that George Eastman had died and had left several million to the University of Rochester. So I went to see Eisenhart, who was handling this sort of thing, and I said, "Maybe there's an opening there." He suggested, "Why don't you write?" I think he wrote also. Then I was called for an interview, and there was a man there, Charles Watkeys. He asked me to his house, and he began playing some music. One was a composition of his own. I didn't know it was his own, and I said, "You know that sounds very Elizabethan." He said, "Oh, you noticed." He said, "That's my composition. I did it in the form of an Elizabethan madrigal." He was a cellist, and I played the piano. I think that to some extent on that basis he urged that I should be given the job. And I got the job just like that. Pure accident.

... it's interesting that my being fired from Rochester led to my meeting Einstein and working with him.

I first met Albert Einstein in 1935, at the famous Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. ... I was awe in of Einstein, and hesitated before approaching him about some ideas I had been working on. My hesitation proved unwarranted. When I finally knocked on his door, a gentle voice said, "Come" - with a rising inflection that made the single word both a welcome and a question. I entered his office and found him seated at a table, calculating and smoking his pipe. Dressed in ill-fitting clothes, his hair characteristically awry, he smiled a warm welcome. His utter naturalness at once set me at ease. As I began to explain my ideas, he asked me to write the equations on the blackboard so that he could see how they developed. Then, came the staggering - and altogether endearing - request: "Please go slowly. I do not understand things quickly." This from Einstein! He said it gently, and I laughed. From then on, all vestiges of fear were gone.

Following the meeting of the Queens College administrative committee and the executive committee of the Board of Higher Education, President Paul Klapper announces the following supplementary appointments to the staff of Queens College: Banesh Hoffman, Ph.D., Princeton University, formerly instructor in mathematics and research associate at the University of Rochester, co-author with Dr Albert Einstein of a paper to be published soon, to be instructor in mathematics.

How shall I sum up what it meant to have known Einstein and his work? Like the Nobel prize winner who pointed helplessly at his watch, I can find no adequate words. It was akin to the revelation of the great art that lets one see what was formerly hidden. And, when for example, I walk on the sand of a lonely beach, I am reminded of his ceaseless search for cosmic simplicity - and the scene takes on a deeper, sadder beauty.