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...BOTANICAL CLUB. "The Problem of Genetics." Professor William Bateson, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, England. Nash Lecture Room, Botanical Museum...
...first fearful problems that we have to meet, said Bishop Ingram, is the great increase in the population of London, an increase which amounts to at least 100,000 every year. In addition, all our little country villages are being swallowed up year after year and others are growing every day. Another problem is the appalling overcrowding of London which we already have. The mortality is terrible, especially among children, of whom 52 out of every thousand die yearly, whereas the ordinary rate is not more than 18. At least half of these deaths are due to preventable diseases...
...problem seems to be narrowing down pretty much to a question of the development of a fast, scrappy centare, a reliable right tackle and the improvement of the ends. The candidates for end are better than for several years back, but they seem to be almost uniformly show at following the ball. That there will be all varieties of the new football played on Soldiers Field this fall is already apparent from the few games played and it is safe to assume than the possibilities of the eleven will be fully developed along these lines...
...leading article in the September number of the Graduates' Magazine is the speech delivered last June before the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa by Hon. James Bryce. In a discussion of the eternally perplexing problem of Progress, it presents rather the difficulties in the way of answering the question,--"Has mankind on the whole advanced?"--than any actual definition or answer. Mr. Bryce points out that material progress, which is obvious and easy to determine, by no means involves intellectual and moral progress. The sum of human happiness, which ought to be a certain index of progress, cannot possibly...
...made to make it both attractive and useful. As a result the deficit has been decreased by $2000. The scheme commenced a year ago of placing the membership dues on the term bills has been continued with increased success and has gone a long way towards solving the financial problem. At present there are 2173 active members--80 more than at this time a year ago. Of these active members 1958 had their dues charged on their term bills. There are 1061 graduate life members, 72 student life, 651 associate members, and 526 non-resident members, making a total...