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Anthropologists are fascinated by the Motilones, whose customs, language and origin are unknown. When the American Museum of Natural History offered Anthropologist Preston Holder the job of snooping on them, he accepted eagerly. Last week, back in New York, Holder told how he, too, had drawn a blank...
...religious scholars were predestined to go begging, Harvard divinity history portends the present low tide of endowments. It is true that the University owes its origin to the desire to feed Puritan pulpits and, significantly or not, the first faculty chair was the Holis Professorship of Divinity (1721); but the non-sectarian aspect of a Harvard divinity education can be identified with the College trend toward liberalism, as early as President Leverett's administration in the beginning of the eighteenth century. In fact, the Hollis chair, even though used for Congregationalist ends, was donated by a Baptist...
...success of this experiment, Dr. Hall proceeded to the next. Some of his brown mice, still untested, had unusual ancestry. They were descended from fertilized ova transplanted from a female brown mouse into the womb of a black one. All the "genes" in their cells were of brown-mouse origin. Only the nourishment materials which formed their infant bodies came from their foster mother...
Pepper points to his years at Law School as the origin of his politics. With a brief nod to the merits of the Case System, he claims his greatest gain was "a capacity for hard work, a sentiment and appreciation of what it means to get the facts...
Also, no code of ethics is an adequate substitute for religion. For if it be manmade, it can be remade by other men, and its true name is mores, which are transient. And even if, like the Ten Commandments, an ethical code has a religious origin, but is not newly illuminated for each generation by fresh drafts of religion, then its followers are trapped in what Santayana calls "the snare of moralism, that destroys the sweetness of human affections by stretching them on the rack of infinity...