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...first part of his lecture, President Hibben gave the "first and most compelling duty of citizenship" as "the recognition of man's true relation to the society of which he is part", and defined the primary object of a college education as the fitting of "each student most adequately to perform his proper functions as an essential part of the social structure in which he is to live and move and have his being...
Then, after asserting that the primary object of a college education was to prepare the student to fit into society as an essential part of the social structure in which he lives, President Hibben showed that Harvard and Princeton were working along parallel lines to produce a body of young men who have "learned to think for themselves," tion in conduct...
...functions of the body, as digestion, breathing. It is far older (biologically) and far more essential to life than that part of the brain in which conscious thought takes place-the cortex. The cat thus operated upon by Dr. Cannon lacked many normally automatic responses to stimuli. A fearsome object, as a dog, did not make it bristle its fur in either fright or anger; its body temperature did not react to counterbalance changes of room temperatures. The experiment thus proves surgically what pharmocologists have long known from the effects of certain drugs (atropin, nitrate, pilocarpin, morphin), what mothers have...
...critical may object to "Pickwick" because it has no plot--but it has as much plot as a revue and ten times the humor. Moreover, the imposing array of Wardles, Wellers, and Dickensonian whatnots, compensate for any lack of structure. "The Pickwick Papers" had no definite plot; to have invented one for its dramatic counterpart would have been to lose much of the spirit of the original...
...fragments must be transmitted and received each second. The best speed of Inventor Baird of London has been 30,000 to the second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo-electric cells. Inventor Baird used one mysterious "supersensitive" cell. The varying current...