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...serious attempts to develop humane methods of governing Indians were consistently made. Simple inexperience was often responsible for practices that later generations defined as brutal. Spaniards could not understand West Indian natives who had no chiefs, did not realize that they were psychologically incapable of comprehending the meaning of complex religious rites. Yet the technique of administration constantly improved, until by 1697 an unarmed priest could make peace with a powerful tribe in Central America, bringing 80,000 under the rule of Spain almost without loss of life. In some respects the priest's diplomatic problem was almost...
...back to Columbus three weeks early this autumn, divided the squad into four groups, held workouts from 9 a. m. until sundown. Most Big Ten coaches abide by tacit agreement not to run up one-sided scores against each other. Not so, Schmidt. Superficial characteristics of his strategy are complex ground plays, frequent passes. His 18-year coaching record: won 137, lost 30, tied...
Last week Robert Allerton Parker recounted the complex history of the Oneida Community in a biography of its founder, John Humphrey Noyes, shrewd, enlightened fanatic who expounded his theories of free love with passionate moral fervor. Carefully documented, A Yankee Saint is a mine of information on a significant development in U. S. history, succeeds in giving a comprehensive account of the ways of the Community without exploiting its absurd or sensational aspects. The Oneida Community was a serious economic and ethical experiment. Noyes, who held it together throughout his life, was a courageous and resourceful man, well-informed, sufficiently...
...difficult to write comprehensively about the oriental crabapples; there are so many of them and they are such a varied lot. In Asia the crab-apples behave in somewhat the same bewildering way as do the Hawthorues in this country; taken as a whole they form a complex assemblage, difficult to sort into such conventional pigconholes as species and varicitics. They probably hybridize in nature, they most certainly do in cultivation. Some are low shrubs, others are forest trees. Some bear fruits closely resembling the cultivated apple in size and shape, others have fruits so tiny that one must look...
...course, my dear MacBride, that you stand against the opinion of practically the whole biological world." It was not that Dr. MacBride could not stomach the fundamental fact of organic evolution. Probably no sane biologist, and certainly none of Dr. MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that all complex forms of life have arisen from simpler organisms. It was the mode of evolution that Dr. MacBride disputed. He is an ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable Professor William...