Word: offing
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Professor Shaler holds that the facts established by evolution point clearly and surely to the conclusion that there is an intelligent principle in control of the Universe. "To those," he says, "who have devoted themselves to natural inquiry, at the same time keeping their minds open to the large impression...
It may be true, Professor Shaler acknowledges, that this intellectual quality akin to their own which men believe they see through the harmony of natural laws is but an imagination and an unreal theory. Personally, Professor Shaler believes it is not unreal, but is a scientific fact. By a series...
Professor Shaler agrees with Professor James in rejecting the old belief that consciousness is but a function of the brain and that, therefore, without a material brain consciousness is impossible. He also believes in the newer thought that the mechanism of the brain does not directly produce conciousness, but is...
Following is a list of the more important gifts and bequests received by Harvard University since last Commencement. This list does not include payments made on account of previous bequests, but only new or additional gifts. Mrs. Henry Draper, $3293.32 Additional gifts to Draper Memorial Anonymous, 20,000.00 Added to...
President and Fellows of Harvard College. Meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston, 10.30 a. m.