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...Zoological Club. The Formation and Function of the Medullary Sheath of Nerve-fibres. Mr. P. E. Sargent.--Short Papers. Room 1, fourth floor, Museum of Comparative Zoology...
Pleasant reading of various kinds makes the last number of the Advocate published by the 1903 board, unusually entertaining. A well directed editorial, of the "Farewell, and our blessing!" type, calls deserved attention to perhaps the most valuable function of college journalism--the stimulation of undergraduates to literary work for its own sake and its own pleasures...
Four years ago Brown University held the first conference of this kind at Providence, and since then meetings have been held at New York twice and at Philadelphia once. The conference has no definite authority, its function being to discuss general problems of intercollegiate interest, to advise their colleges of the opinions arrived at, and to assist in maintaining cordial relations between the colleges. Following its advice, similar athletic committees and systems of athletic control have been established in most of the eastern colleges...
Professor T. N. Carver, of the economics department, spoke last night in Brooks House at the meeting of the Religious Union on "Religion from the Point of View of the Student of Sociology." He discussed at length the function of religion in social development, maintaining that religion as a moral and conservative force is an aid to progress Science and religion, he said, sprang originally from the same sources in human nature, the desire to know, and the desire to find the hidden causes of things. The wonder excited by the contemplation of the unexplainable realities of experience, the belief...
...negative oppose the adoption of such amendment, not merely because it is unnecessary, but because it would mean a fundamental departure from the structure and theory of our government. Our government is indeed national, yet it is federal. Its success, must rest upon the preservation of the function and authority of the States. It is this very principle which the affirmative would violate by their plan. For in the field of protecting life and property the States have always been absolute. The suppression of continued violence as of sporadic violence has always been essentially a function of the States...