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...Zoological Club will meet tonight in the Museum. Papers on the Development of Fish Scales, on the Origin of the Entoderm, and on the Eyes of the Arthropods. Doors open from...
Such being the general point of view of the lecture, the particular topics next discussed were: (1) The objection that the modern doctrine of evolution, in assigning a "low origin" to all significant things, deprives the world of all higher and ideal significance. (2) The objection that empirical students of evolution are often unaware of the teleological and ideal nature of their own presuppositions, so that it seems doubtful whether their presuppositions actually have this ideal character. To both these objections the same response was made. The doctrine of evolution has its purely naturalistic as well as its teleological side...
...languages as Ethiopic, Phoenician, Pali, Gothic, Icelandic, Old Saxon, etc. There is however no course in Celtic. Is it not possible to have one at Harvard? A knowledge of old Welsh, Gaelic and Celtic is important for those who study mediaeval literature and seek to trace the origin of various myths and legends which have been woven into the romances of old French and German. Courses in the field suggested would certainly not be given in vain, and there are undoubtedly members of the Faculty competent to give them. Nothing apparently, is lacking but the courses themselves...
Modern Language Conference. The Origin of the Names of the English Alphabet. Professor Sheldon.- Diderot's Influence on Goethe. Mr. C. H. Page.- David Mallet's Literary Forgeries. Mr. W. L. Phelps. Sever...
...Ireland has a right to homerule.- a. Right of all British subjects to self-government; Hannis Taylor; Origin and growth of the English Constitution, I. 12, 13; Fiske, American Political Ideas. 54-56; 70-71; 91-92; Hosmer, Anglo Saxon Freedom, 270 271, 322-323; Nineteenth Century, February, 1887.-b. History does not support England's claim to govern Ireland: E. A. Freeman in Contemporary Review, Feb.1886, 156-157; Gladstone in handbook of Home Rule, 262-280; Gladstone; The Irish Question, 10.-c. The Irish are competent to govern themselves: Handbook of Home Rule...