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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other titles in this series: The Stream of Life by Julian S. Huxley; Age of the Earth by Arthur Holmes; Science of Today by Sir Oliver Lodge; The Genius of Shakespeare by G. B. Harrison; A History of England by David Somervell...
...Sayles '28, playing number four for the University seconds was downed by Baldwin 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. In the other two singles matches S. G. French '28, beat Henry 6-3, 6-1, and Hyman Lisker '29 easily finished Huxley...
ESSAYS IN POPULAR SCIENCE? Julian S. Huxley?Knopf ($4). "There is a danger," says the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Evolution), "in these days of manifold information and broadcast amusement, that the world will become divided into those who have to think for their living and those who never think at all." Hence?and because the layman, while he is knowing and kindly towards an atom or electron when he meets one, is embarrassed by sperms and ova and benighted as to chromosomes?hence another volume of popular biology...
...folk to whom such marvels are stale pudding, there are more specialized technical expositions out of Professor Huxley's own researches, notably a tadpole study in developmental physiology. All is eminently clear reading, and there is the grandson's explanation of his famed grandfather's attitude toward religion, graceful, convincing and rather fine...
...book is less commendable than the same author's Essays of a Biologist. Therein the long view was more sustained?the implications of biology in the future, the sanity of birth control, the purpose of evolution and kindred philosophical speculations upon the findings of science?speculations for which Professor Huxley appears to be strongly equipped, perhaps (laws of heredity notwithstanding) by one of his great-grandfathers, Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby, father of Matthew ("Sweetness and Light") Arnold...