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...University at which Louis Agassiz taught in the years when he stood foremost among American biologists, has seen its influence in that field waning, principally from the lack of proper equipment. No science can be content in the twentieth century with the laboratories that were modern in the nineteenth: and it is fitting that Biology, rising to new importance as the study of medicine increases its demands, should be chosen to counter the contention that Harvard is snubbing science for an excess of the arts...
...Nineteenth Century American Writers of N.Y., the South and West" Professor Murdock. Harvard...
...Nineteenth Century American Writers of N. Y., the South and West", Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...Russia's Economic Development in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century", Mr. Karpovich, Sever...
...near to pornography, and so, even, do some quite popular Christian hymns." Author Lawrence thinks the present attitude to pornography is pornographical, blames much of it on "the last century, the eunuch century, the century of the mealy-mouthed lie, the century that has tried to destroy humanity, the nineteenth century." Says Lawrence, if men had a sane feeling about sex, two things would disappear; the love lyric, the smoking-room story. "You can't do it by being wise and scientific about it, like Dr. Marie Slopes: though to be wise and scientific like Dr. Marie Stopes...