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Professor Alexander Meiklejohn of the University of Wisconsin will be the Liberal Club speaker at 8 o'clock in Emerson D. Professor Meiklejohn, who is at present Chairman of the Experimental College at Wisconsin, will speak on "Experimental Education." The lecture will be open to all members of the University...
...President of Amherst College, and since 1926 he has been professor of Philosophy and head of the Experimental College at Wisconsin. Professor Meiklejohn is considered one of the leaders of intellectual life in America, and his position in the University of Wisconsin makes him peculiarly qualified to speak on experimental education...
...Reverend Mr. John Haynes Holmes will speak on "Ten Years of the Community Church" at the meeting of the alumni in Divinity Chapel at 10.30 o'clock tomorrow morning. The luncheon will be served at 1 o'clock in the Farrar Room. At 3 o'clock in Andover Chapel, Professor Bixler, head of the Department of Religion, Smith College, will deliver the Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man on the subject "Immortality and the Present Mood". A service in Divinity Chapel will be conducted at 5.30 o'clock by the Reverend Mr. W. S. Jones of Portsmouth, New Hampshire...
...writer of the editorial "Welsh Rarebit" in yesterday's CRIMSON seems to be under the impression that the Celtic culture and languages are dead, for he says: "A purely academic and scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little." I can not speak from personal experience as to the Gaelic of the Scottish Highlands but I do know that Welsh is very much alive. I know two proofs of this: first, there is a Welsh newspaper the "Baner ar Amseran Cymon" of which I have a copy and, second, the children talk Welsh. As long as the children talk...
...monthly meeting of the New York Microscopical Society pursued its calm way fortnight ago until Dr. Maximilian Toch, michro-chemist, arose to speak. Dr. Toch's specialty is the analysis of paint, the verification of works of art by microphotography. To the assembled scientists he showed numerous lantern slides, explained his theory: a painting may be identified by magnification of the artist's brushstrokes, which are as characteristic as his handwriting. Like a firecracker came a specific statement: None of the Rembrandts in the Metropolitan Museum is genuine, with the possible exception of The Gilder from the Havemeyer Collection...