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...tariff questions the work of Harvard professors has been of wide-spread influence and has directed the stream of public opinion into channels leading to scientific analysis and reasonable adjustment. The contributions of the Medical School to the science of preventive medicine and the important discoveries following medical research illustrate amply that the University comprehends the problems of the community and extends her forces to solve them...
...literary "output" will become as important as the number of students in attendance. The trade publishers will not suffer, for universities are not given to producing "best sellers," and most of their books a publisher could not well afford to bandle. Yet in addition to publishing records of research, of interest mainly to specialists, the universities might well consider how far they can supply books of permanent value the demand for which is too small to warrant a general publisher in undertaking them. The Loeb classical library is an excellent example of what a university might have done...
...University is not advanced. Also many investigations are carried on and yield important results, yet to set these results before the public is impossible because of lack of funds. The establishment of the University Press will make possible the publication and wider dissemination of the results of this original research work. That the need of such an institution is becoming generally recognized is shown by the recent establishment of Presses at several universities in this country. However, none of these universities has established institutions comparable to those of Oxford and Cambridge, which universities have won special fame by the publication...
Coincident with the announcement on Monday morning of the recent gift to the University of ten thousand dollars, donated to encourage psychical research, there appeared in the New York Sun a long account of the communications which Professor Hyslop, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, claims to have had from the late Professor William James. To the layman the account is fantastic and puzzling: the story of how Professor Hyslop, through the medium of a fifteen-year old boy, held conversations on several different occasions with the "spirit" of Professor James, which proved to the former...
...department in the Medical School which will be under Dr. Strong's supervision, will offer instruction to graduates and students of the school besides carrying on active research in tropical diseases. There will be excellent opportunity to co-operate with other departments of the University where extensive information as to insects, snakes and other poisonous animals of the tropics is available. Besides this are the Bussey Institution where entomologists have made a special study of these insects; the various museums where other specialists are studying animals, reptiles and plants with a view to finding out the laws of heredity...