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...William Henry Perkin, the English scientist, visited the University yesterday. He was received by President and Mrs. Eliot, and was taken to see various points of interest, including Boylston Laboratory, the University Museum, the Observatory, and the Stadium. Professors Richards, Torrey, and Pickering assisted at his reception...
Dean Shaler was perhaps the most versatile member of the Faculty. He not only attained distinction as an administrator and scientist, but was also well known as a soldier, historian, philosopher, and poet. After graduating from the Scientific School as a Bachelor of Science in 1862, he served two years in the Union army, as captain of a Kentucky volunteer battery, known as "Shaler's Battery." Four years after leaving the army Dean Shaler became a member of the Faculty...
Judge Septimus J. Hanna will speak on "Christian Science" before the Christian Science Society, this evening at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. Judge Hanna is a member of the board of lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, and of the Christian Science Board of Education, Boston. Beginning in 1893 he edited for nine years the "Christian Science Journal" and the "Christian Science Sentinel...
...asserts itself in our thoughts as well as in our actions. "We experience nervousness, for instance, when we are called upon to speak in public; we read a literary criticism in a magazine before we form an opinion about a new book; we ask the opinion of an intellectual scientist before we express our views upon religion." Again, in our social relationships in college life we are influenced too much by the opinions of others: perhaps we treat our friend with a certain condescension when we are in the company of those whom we consider his social superiors. In conclusion...
...phase which Professor Jackson will consider in his lecture. In the young, forms of development are found which are comparable to those of adults of simpler and geologically older types in the group to which the organism belongs. It is to the fossils in the rocks, therefore, that the scientist must turn to study the genealogy of organic forms. With the aid of the stereopticon, Professor Jackson will demonstrate the various methods of occurrence of stages in representative types and will show to what ancestors these may be referred...