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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE.

THE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES. By Edward

S. Mead, Professor of Finance...

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7

9

PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROMISE IN ASTRONOMY OF

POSITION. By Eric Doolittle, Flower Professor of Astronomy,

and Director of the Flower Observatory.

25

JERUSALEM, THE HOLY CITY. By James A. Montgomery, Professor

of Hebrew and Aramaic..

38

THE LAWYERS of George MEREDITH. By William H. Loyd, Assistant

Professor of Law....

57

SANITY AND DEFINITENESS IN EDUCATION. By A. Duncan Yocum,

Professor of Educational Research and Practice.....

USEFUL USELESS EXPERIMENTING. By Owen L. Shinn, Professor of

Applied Chemistry....

70

99

THE HISTORY AND PROGRESS OF MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE

UNITED STATES. By William Pepper, Assistant Professor of

Clinical Pathology, and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine...... 112

SOME BIOLOGICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF GROWTH. By Merkel

Henry Jacobs, Assistant Professor of Zoology..

131

LAW AND SOCIETY.

By Francis H. Bohlen, Algernon Sydney Biddle

Professor of Law..

148

THE DRAMA, THE PHOTO-PLAY AND EDUCATION. By Thomas D.

O'Bolger, Assistant Professor of English...........

156

THE IMPORTANCE OF TUBERCULOSIS IN ITS RELATION TO PUBLIC

HEALTH. By Henry R. M. Landis, Assistant Professor of Medi-

cine, and Director of the Clinical and Sociological Department

of the Phipps Institute..

175

THE SEA AND THE SAILOR IN FICTION. By Edward C. Wesselhoeft,

Professor of German..

192

ALESSANDRO BOTTICELLI. By Herbert E. Everett, Professor of His-

tory of Art...

226

FOLK-TALES

OF INDIA. By Roland G. Kent, Professor of Com-

parative Philology...

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UNPROVED PROPOSITIONS AND UNDEFINED RELATIONS. By George

H. Hallett, Professor of Mathematics..

LIFE INSURANCE AS AN ECONOMIC FORCE IN THE COMMUNITY. By

Solomon S. Huebner, Professor of Insurance and Commerce..... 277

THE RETURN TO NATURE. By Frederick Ehrenfeld, Assistant Pro-

fessor of Geology and Mineralogy..

295

PROPERTY RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN IN PENNSYLVANIA. By Ward

W. Pierson, Professor of Business Law in the Wharton School.. 339

THE HINDU BEAST FABLE AND THE STORY OF ITS TRAVELS. By

Franklin Edgerton, Assistant Professor of Sanscrit.....

THE ORIGIN OF THE GREEK ALPHABET.

Professor of Greek.....

359

By William N. Bates,

380

ANDREAS VESALIUS AND HIS TIMES. By George A. Piersol, Professor

of Anatomy.

PUBLIC OPINION AS VIEWED BY EMINENT POLITICAL THEORISTS. By

397

Clyde Lyndon King, Assistant Professor of Political Science..... 417

MUSIC. By Hugh A. Clarke, Professor of the Science of Music........ 454

PARACELSUS. By Thomas P. McCutcheon, Jr., Assistant Professor

of Chemistry.....

459

CARICATURE AND MORAL CRITICISM. By Louis William Flaccus,

Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

489

RECENT PROGRess in RoentgEN RAYS. By Thomas D. Cope, Assist-

ant Professor of Physics....

512

THE ROMAN EMPEROR WORSHIP. By George Depue Hadzsits,

Assistant Professor of Latin..

524

HOW THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IS Indebted to Pure MATHEMATICS.

By George E. Fisher, Professor of Mathematics..

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PREFACE

Public lectures, by members of the University faculties, have been held for three years, and the present volume contains the subjects discussed in the third year of the course. It is assumed, from the continued attendance on the part of the general public, that these efforts of the University in the direction of public service are appreciated; hence it is a genuine pleasure to place, in this permanent form, the products of the thought and endeavor of the men who are quietly advancing the borders of human knowledge within the halls of the University, that a still larger audience may come to know them.