The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 267

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1926 - Zoology
 

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Page 52 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word, Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ? Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it : from this moment, The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
Page 9 - Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty where he is going.
Page 65 - In entering this place, even this vast hospital, where there is many a significant, many a wonderful thing, you shall take me along with you, and I will be your guide. But it is by your own eyes, and your ears and your own minds, and (I may add) by your own hearts, that you must observe, and learn, and profit. I can only point to the objects, and say little else than
Page 1 - Dean V. The Henry Shaw School of Botany (Shenandoah and Tower Grove Avenues) George T. Moore, Ph.D., Engelmann Professor of Botany VI. The School Of Graduate Studies (Skinker Road and Lindell Boulevard) Otto Heller, Ph.D., Dean VII.
Page 20 - Its subject-matter is a large moiety of the universe — its position is midway between the physicochemical and the social sciences. Its value as a branch of discipline is partly that which it has in common with all sciences — the training and strengthening of common sense ; partly that which is more peculiar to itself — the great exercise which it affords to the faculties of observation and comparison ; and, I may add, the exactness of knowledge which it requires on the part of those among its...
Page 67 - A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.
Page 46 - ... of the possession of the requisite knowledge and skill for the efficient practice of dentistry or dental surgery.
Page 16 - I do but say that there will be this distinction as regards a Professor of Law, or of Medicine, or of Geology, or of Political Economy, in a University and out of it, that out of a University he is in danger of being absorbed and narrowed by his pursuit, and of giving Lectures which are the Lectures of nothing more than a lawyer, physician, geologist, or political economist...
Page 45 - ... cramming, and any man who tries to pass an examination upon them alone will not be at all likely to get the maximum number of marks. But I do not think that lectures are intended for the purpose of cramming. Their use is not to supply the student with all the information he needs, but to awaken his attention, to excite his interest, to impress upon him certain points which will form a nucleus for his knowledge, and around which he may afterwards group more information.
Page 56 - It was a good law as far as it went, but it did not go far enough even in regard to contributions.

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