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...Editor's Note: The editorial did not mean to imply that the Celtic culture is dead. Its point was that if, as the press report suggested, the University of Inverness was to be founded mainly to preserve a dying language, it would serve no valuable function. It was from this point of view that the sentence quoted above was written...
...refused life insurance because of it, asserted Dr. John Ralston Williams of Rochester, N. Y. Excess sugar in the blood is no positive criterion of the disease, he said. He proposed a method of exactly measuring the output of the pancreas (abdominal salivary gland) whose imperfect function is an essential factor in the cause of diabetes...
...apparently intend to carry out no reprisals for the traditional Scotchman's reluctance to part with his cash. Plans have been formed by the American loan Society to raise a ten million dollar fund for the establishment of a Gaelic University in the Scottish Highlands. The university's chief function would be to preserve the Gaelic language and culture...
...because their tuition fees supported the "fellows", in whose study lay the main purpose of the institution. American colleges have often neglected that point of view in their preoccupation with undergraduate problems. Rather too little emphasis has been placed in this country on that part of a university's function which includes making new contributions to knowledge...
...There should be such spread of preparatory opportunities as will make certain that the youth who have high abilities will be discovered and put in the way of taking advantage of the highest training that the State can give. Emerson went so far as to make this a supreme function of the State when he said that "to make the wise man, the State exists...