Word: merriams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fracas. As much as scientific men dislike women do they like intellectual fracases. And at the Academy of Science they had a lively one. President John Campbell Merriam of the Carnegie Institution, a paleontologist, argued for ten minutes that man has not, as some students believe, reached the heights of his physical and mental evolution. He can guide his future development by applying the principles of genetics...
President Osborn, however, delayed presenting his theory, to challenge President Merriam. Said he: "In pure races, such as the Swedes, evolution is undoubtedly going on at the regular rate. But we are a hybrid race. ... I think it is very doubtful that under present conditions of civilization large, mixed communities such as ours are evolving. . . . Hybrid animals cease to evolve. . . . Members of the mouse family ceased evolving at least 1.000,000 years...
...initial board as it stands at present follows: Dr. Thomas Barbour '06. Dr. Henry B. Bigelow '01, director, Dr. William Bowie, Dr. E. G. Conklin '26, Mr. Newcomb Carlton, Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar '95, Dr. Frank R. Lillie, president. Dr. John C. Merriam, Mr. Seward D. Prosser, Mr. Lawrason Riggs, Jr. '15, treasurer, Mr. Elihu Root, Jr. '06, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Dr. T. O. Wayland Vaughan '93. The by-laws provide for an increase in the number of trustees up to twenty-four...
...clubs and men presenting the cases this week are as follows: Tomorrow: Edward Warren Club, made up of Arad Riggs 3L and B. G. Habberton 3L versus. The Sayre Club, composed of J. W. Merriam 3L and Milton Schilback 3L. Friday: The Bryce Club, which includes D. W. Raudenbush '31 and H. C. Rose 3L. versus The Van Devanter Club, composed of A. F. Reel 3L and B. P. Cooper...
...chariman of the board. The other 16 men are: C. C. Alpern 2L, T. M. Banks 3L, C. I. Blair 3L, T. H. Eliot 2L, P. H. Gibson 3L, B. M. Goodman 3L, S. S. Tanney 2L, T. F. King 3L, D. T. Maxwell 3L, T. D. Merriam 3L, Norman Newmaek 3L, T. H. Nichols 2L, T. B. Shea 3L, David Shea 3L, R. A. Warren 3L, Nathan Witt...