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Another large section of the Report deals with American social life in the period immediately preceding the final catastrophe, and it should furnish fascinating reading not only for the social scientist but also for students of folklore and primitive religion. The survival of totemism as late as the twentieth century has often been disputed, but is now established as a historical fact. Newhaven and Princeton were the homes of the Bulldog and Tiger totems respectively, and these wild bands fought incessantly over the ground that had been formerly consecrated to learning. Evidence of totems at Cambridge is lacking;--there...
...Scientists do not like to be called from their laboratory, but ever and again they are. Last week, another scientist was called out. The Fundamentalist attack on the teaching of Organic Evolution, which has reached the stage of legislative action, called him forth. He came, not to debate-for there must be two sides to a debate-but to lay the facts which Science has discovered before the public, that the layman might judge for himself. The man who was called was Richard Swann Lull, alma matered by Rutgers College,* and now Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology (the science of extinct...
...large factories now are. Outside "the old man's" office, a placard advises visitors that he is so busy that he finds it "impossible to grant any personal interviews." Within, an absorbed, absentminded, gracious, tireless, cheerful individual carries on his work, with the calm open-mindedness of a scientist, from one day to the next of his 79th year. Well might his motto be the one which is the heritage of the Princes of Wales-"Ich dien" (I serve...
...William Lord Smith '86, experienced scientist and world famous explorer, is offering a unique opportunity for Harvard men to broaden their education by a voyage around the world. He has planned the trip, which will last a year, for five or six graduates of the University, and has secured an assistant who is capable of giving instruction in biology, history, government, and comparative religions...
...less than two months ago. His Excellency, in defending his action, caustically declared at that time that nobody believed it was going to be an active statute. Governor Peay, however, had his tongue in his cheek all the while it now appears. Professor J. T. Scopes, a scientist, is one of the first to realize that the soft spoken Fundamentalists were not so playful as they pretended, for before he knew it he found himself arrested to face a charge of violating a state...