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Quite apart from my naive affection for Aristotelian ethics (shared with such other insufficiently Protestant men as Melanchton and Beza), I confess that in my former confusion, I had been somewhat struck by the theological ethics of Calvin and his successors; in that darkened state, I had been impressed more than I ought by more recent Protestant efforts to ground sexual ethics in the fact of the divine creation of the human race as male and female...
...immature victims may at any moment drop dead. Obscure though the function of the thymus is, it occurs in all creatures from fish to man. In man, it shrivels as adolescence wanes, becomes only a vestige with age. Dr. Rowntree, following the lead of an old friend, Dr. Adolph Melanchton Hanson of remote Faribault, Minn., injected rats with extracts of cattle thymi (sweetbreads). Nothing unusual seemed to happen, except that the females produced more babies than undosed females. Dr. Rowntree dosed the babies, but got no more obvious results than a continued statistical excess of births. Third, fourth and subsequent...
...annual conference of eastern college men, which is being attended by twenty-five men from the University, opened last evening at Hartford. Rev. Melanchton W. Jacobus, D.D., of the Hartford Theological Seminary, delivered the address of welcome. Among today's speakers will be Robert E. Speer, D.D., Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. Tomorrow the closing address will be given by Dr. John R. Mott, LL.D., general secretary of the Student Christian Federation...
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