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Confronting the aimed and calculated thrusts of a logician, the Reverend John Roach Straton, D. D., salient fundamentalist and divine, went down to defeat at the hands of Professor R. C. Givler, Ph.D. '14, of the Department of Psychology at Tufts College, in a verbal duel staged last night in the Living Room of the Union. Before an enthusiastic, responsive audience which packed the room and listened motionless throughout three hours, the divine and the psychologist thrust and parried on the subject: "Resolved, That this house believes that the growing tendency toward Agnosticism and Atheism is undermining our social structure...
Professor Alfred N. Whitehead, Professor of Philosophy, will deliver the nineteenth lecture of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course on religion at 4 o'clock tomorrow, taking as his subject "Science and Religion". Professor Whitehead, who is well known as a mathematical philosopher and logician, of Cambridge University, will discuss his subject from an analytical point of view...
...minds of the day"-and immediately after the war he was released from prison and reinstated in his fellowship. Again speaking of Russell's nature. Wesley C. Mitchell points out, Bertrand Russell possesses extraordinary courage. He has the moral intensity of a martyr, the intellectual confidence of a great logician, and the calm assurance of an English aristocrat." His experiences with human nature in its least tolerant mood during the war as one of an insignificant and most unpopular minority have not made him more steadfast in his purpose...
...February and March at 8 o'clock, Mr. Peirce is a brother of Dean Peirce of the Graduate School, and has been a lecturer on logic at the Johns Hopkins University and was also a member of the U. S. Geological Survey. Mr. Peirce is the most prominent logician in the United States. His improvements in the Algebra of Logic are of world wide reputation...
...Testament. More and more we are beginning to realize that the truly great men are the missionaries, the philanthropists, and the other servants of God. Christ came not to be ministered unto but to minister, and Paul, perhaps of all men most resembling Christ. Paul the great logician and scholar delighted in calling himself the servant of Christ. So ought we all to be servants of Christ. In our several callings we should emulate Him. In the words of the text "Whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant...