Word: various
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Eliot cited the various uses to which ether is put at the present day, and mentioned the discovery of antiseptics seventeen years after that of ether. He then spoke on animal experimentation by vivisection, and gave the resulting benefits to mankind as adequate justification for these experiments. He took as an example the result of the very first discovery, that of substituting vaccination for innoculation in cases of small...
...Eliot closed by taking up the question of whether it is commendable to make these invaluable and scientific discoveries at the expense of the comfort or life of animals, which man uses in various ways to sustain himself. Dr. Eliot defended the tests on animals in these words...
...history of states formed the chief topic of the speaker's address. Emphasizing the importance of this as the dominant part of all history, Professor Meyer summarized the weaknesses and the various points of strength in the nations; that have occupied leading positions in the history of the world...
...religious worship and instruction in the midst of the student community. And we are sure that there are many men who have not reflected how much they might do by their participation in those services to sustain this effort on behalf of the best life. Ministers of distinction of various denominations and from all parts of the country put their experience at the disposal of the students, not only in the Chapel services, but also by keeping the hours from 9 to 11 o'clock each morning at Wadsworth House for consultation with any men who may come to them...
Tonight at 8 o'clock, instead of last night, as was previously announced, a conference on Social Service will be held at Phillips Brooks House. A. Beane '11 will outline the method of assigning men to Social Service work, and several men will speak on various aspects of Social Service and the place of college students in such work. Professor F. G. Peabody '69, of the Social Ethics Department, will talk on "The Benefits of Social Service Work to the College Man as an Individual;" Robert A. Woods, of the South End House, Boston, on "The Opportunity for the College...