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Slow, almost tortuous, has been the evolution of justice in the U. S. which the 54th Attorney General now recounts in a readable book entitled Federal Justice published currently.* Collaborator with Homer Stille Cummings in the presentation of the story of the Department of Justice and the Attorneys General, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Federal Justice | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Thus stood the earliest college entrance requirements set by Harvard College. Early examinations were oral. This procedure was not improved until 1845 when Horace Mann spurred the introduction of written examinations in Boston, whence they soon spread to all U. S. schools. In 1900 came another improvement when the College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Examiners Examined | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

A virtuoso of arboreal acrobatics, the gibbon is a small, flat-faced ape which inhabits southeastern Asia. It is a "key animal" in primate evolution because it is more at ease on two legs than any other ape or monkey, because of its cerebral affinities with man and the great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gibbon Hunt | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Special attention will be paid to the behavior and physical structure of gibbons, which live in great clans in the jungles of northern Siam. There is strong evidence that man and other higher primates have evolved from a gibbonoid stock, and therefore the gibbon becomes a key animal in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Zoologist Leads Nine Months Trek to Study Agile Gibbons in Siam | 12/15/1936 | See Source »

As president of the Association's Zoology Section, Dr. Huxley delivered an address on "Natural Selection and Evolutionary Progress." Natural selection has been subject to much criticism because it does not account for all aspects of evolution and because Darwin gave no emphasis to mutations (sudden changes in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: BAAS | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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