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...remedy this evil, we must first understand the positive side of the question and this involves a knowledge of the real function of marriage. Marriage, as a modern institution is the result of a gradual evolution from many forms of living. First there was the patriarchal in which man asserted absolute superiority over woman, and captured as many wives as he could. Next came the matriarchal, an inevitable reaction from the former, in which marriage by capture was succeeded by marriage through captivation. Then came the union of one man with one woman for life, but against this the great...
...necessity the main function of a university always has been, and must be, teaching. It is, in a word, to bring the most highly educated youths of the time up to the limits of education. But from this there spring other functions, among which the first is research. In all advanced subjects the teacher is continually attaining the limit of that subject, and is, therefore, eager to reach out a little beyond this attained knowledge. In turn such a teacher is surrounded by eager and enthusiastic men and is certain to attract them into the research that interests...
...second function is distinctly more complicated than the previous one, yet it is no less a test of a university's activity. Johns Hopkins was the first university to begin this thing and probably saw in it the means of making itself better known. From this beginning others have sprung until our own university publishes no less than eight papers, covering every variety of scientific and literary research...
...discussion, for and against, the reduction of the requirements for the A. B. degree. As we understand it, one of the principal arguments of the opposers of the new plan is that the college should not give way to the professional schools; that Harvard College still has the same function to fulfill which it has always had, and that there are no indications that the college will not be called upon to exercise these functions to its largest extent; in other words, that there is no sign of a falling off in the number of students for the college...
...Constructive Trusts arising out of Fiduciary Relations. 3. Judicial Legislation; its Legitimate Function, if any, in the Development of the Common...