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...this letter he said, "I consider the passage of this bill unfortunate, and I sincerely hope that the act will be repealed." However, he continued with, "It would seem to me very unfortunate for Harvard University to become involved in a technical controversy in regard to the mode of enforcing this...
...This is clearly the case in regard to Section 1, dealing with new appointments. It is not as clear in regard to Section 2, dealing with existing appointments. It would seem to me very unfortunate for Harvard University to become involved in a technical controversy in regard to the mode of enforcing this law. For this reason I am taking the oath and hope that all members of the various faculties of this University will do like wise...
...practically the whole biological world." It was not that Dr. MacBride could not stomach the fundamental fact of organic evolution. Probably no sane biologist, and certainly none of Dr. MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that all complex forms of life have arisen from simpler organisms. It was the mode of evolution that Dr. MacBride disputed. He is an ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable Professor William McDougall does in the U. S. Lamarckism began to fade from...
Thus the two deaths provide a final example of the gangster methods which filled at least an interesting chapter in United States history. Even though the senator himself introduced this mode of government which caused his death, however, a democracy proves itself less effective when it sacrifices normal weapons for those of steel...
...fetishes and masks are direct expressions of religious emotion. The sculptor approaches his work in humility, always feeling that he is less important than the figure he is carving. His carving is for itself, out of his emotion. Is it any wonder that European modernists, rebelling from a current mode of art, should have hailed ecstatically such simple expressive beauty...