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...students at the Annex, Miss Annie P. Henchman, has just written an exceedingly scholarly paper on "Origin and Development of the Central Nervous System in Limax Maximus...
Professor Taussig closed his talk with a brief review of the origin of the present free coinage bill. It comes not from the silver states but from the general depression and hard times throughout the West and the feeling among the farmers that in some way this bill will remove the pressure. The real difficulty in the West is not a scarcity of money but the tendency to too rapid development; too great increase in production results, of course, in prices being forced down. The silver agitation is purely an inflation movement and must be followed by all the consequences...
...first to break away from the old idea of classification and adopt a more natural one. His clearly written books show him again as a lover of the natural. Besides being a botanist, Dr. Gray was a great thinker. He worked out the philosophy of the origin of the species even before Darwin, and Darwin called him "the first of any American in the development of his judicial sense...
...Hewes, Harvard '90, lately read a paper on "The Origin of Sensation of Muscular Tissue" before Dr. Bowditch's class in Physiology at the Medical School...
...discontinuity is the result of a constraint exercised upon the organs of voice; in the case of most instruments of music nothing else is possible. The hypothesis that the suggestion for an art of discontinuous pitch came from the notes of sounding bodies is a theory of the instrumental origin of the art of music...