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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...both sides of the house. His father's comfortable fortune enabled him to send his son to school at Winchester. He afterward took the Bachelor's Degree at Oxford and as the result of study at Montpelier, Padua, and Leyden received the degree of Doctor of Physic. After something like three years of practice in another place, Browne, in 1836, settled at Norwich which was to be his home almost uninterruptedly for the remainder of his life. In 1642, the year of the Battle of Edgehill, appeared what has always been known as a surreptious edition of "Religio Medici," Browne...
...result. With Christ returned the vision of God and the possiblity of redemption. Today the things that keep us most from practical faith in God are engrossing worldly occupations and unrestrained passions. There is also a danger in an ill-directed intellectual life. whoever has, nevertheless, thought or dreamed like Richter what the world would be without its God will wake to say with new fervor and gratitude the wonderful prayer of His Son, "Our Father who art in Heaven...
...question of the advisability of this step and the force of such systems as are at present used, has been debated many times in the Unions, societies, and less formal debates. The Princeton honor system is the main subject for discussion, as the conditions there are more like those at Yale than any other college. The Princeton system is far from being an ideal one and its adoption here would be generally deplored, but as it is a decided improvement over the present Yale methods, its use would certainly bear good results. Something definite should certainly be done here...
...less to the efforts of its officers and professors, has taken its spirit from the policy which has governed the whole University during the last twenty-five years. Though in this period Harvard has been the recipient of many gifts, the period is characterized rather by the business-like disposition of existing means and the careful development of every department as far as those means would allow. In all this there has had to be a ruling sense of proportion, a weighing of the needs of one department against those of another with the result that though some departments have...
...same line, and it would seem with much success, by Professor Trowbridge in the Physical Laboratory. An account of the experiments is given in another column. It is interesting to note how quickly the attention and study of scientists the world over is directed to a matter like this, almost at the moment that the first initiatory discovery is made known. If the latter proves in this case to be of the great scientific and practical value which is predicted for it, the work done by the Harvard laboratory in the direction of further development will be watched with...