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History 18a. Roman Law in Ancient and Mediaeval Culture (The Evolution of the Idea of Law in the Western World). Half-course (spring term). Mon., Wed., Fri., at 3. Dr. Bruck.
The human race has never been more vulnerable to high-flying generalities. At Princeton last week, J. B. S. Haldane, 54, Britain's grand not-very-old man of biology and vicinity, let loose some scary ones before a learned symposium on genetics, paleontology and evolution. Some of them...
Glimmers for Tomorrow. If the race dodges atomic hexing, said Haldane, it may proceed to higher things. In a thousand years or so, it might learn to control its own evolution. Future men would be better adapted to a civilized life.
Headed by Hugh O'Hencken, curator of European Archacology at the Peabody Muscum, the expedition will attempt to corrolate the eave doposits of Tangiers with those of France which have provided the background for the study of evolution.
Beginning with the early colonial period, Mr. Schlesinger traces the evolution of manners. He describes the "minor morals" attitude of the earliest mentors, when American manners formed an adjunct to law and social structure, and punishment was swift for makers of ugly faces. With the Revolution and rise of republicanism...