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...that, while women merely glow, the same occasions put men in a downright sweat. This damp fact has been experimentally confirmed by Dr. James Daniel Hardy and his co-workers at Manhattan's Russell Sage Institute of Pathology. Last week they announced their findings-appropriately enough, at a symposium of temperature held by the American Institute of Physics...
Ominous from a religious viewpoint was a symposium of personal credos by 38 assorted intellectuals which was published this week.* For only one of the 38, Catholic Jacques Maritain, believes firmly in a personal God or in traditional Christianity. As individual as their authors, who range from Humorist James Thurber to Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the credos still managed to agree that the world's state is parlous, that organized religion offers no real solution...
...that the cell is a fundamental unit of life. Some time ago Joseph Meyer, a consultant at the Library of Congress, conceived the idea of a great centenary celebration in honor of Schleiden and Schwann and of the discovery of the cell theory in 1839. Hence Stanford's symposium...
Acquired Characteristics. In 1896 Conklin got into another big scientific row. He was asked to take part in a Philadelphia symposium on "The Factors of Organic Evolution." He was then only 33 and rather bashful about appearing before his elders, but, being urged, he accepted. He was pitted in debate against a booming bigwig, Professor Edward Drinker Cope of University of Pennsylvania, who advanced the Lamarckian view that acquired characteristics (e.g., muscular development or manual skill) can be inherited. Conklin defended the opposite view, boldly stated that inherited characteristics are determined solely by the germ plasm. In the course...
...outside of biology proper his preoccupations range from the ethics of science to the meaning of life, from democracy to educational psychology. It is characteristic that he does not go to California this week merely to take part in Stanford's symposium on the cell. In San Francisco next week he is scheduled to address the National Education Association on "Education for Democracy...