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the civilized world holds like opinions, but this is an error as 

 the following quotation, reprinted from Science which ab- 

 stracted it from the Bulletin of Wheaton College, will show : 



"Our former biology teacher, because of a change in view 

 or for some other reason, was teaching the doctrine that human 

 beings have descended from animals. This not being the be- 

 lief of this college which accepts the Bible account of creation 

 in all its details, she resigned her position and her resignation 

 was accepted. God sent us in a very definite manner Profes- 

 sor S. J. Bole, an A. B. from the University of Illinois, who 

 was for nine years instructor in the Illinois State University 

 but whose religious views were positive and clear and made 

 him desirous of a change. In view of the general situation 

 among university men, we consider his coming to us distinctly 

 providential.." 



BOOKS AND WRITERS 



Harriet L. Keeler has rounded out the growing year by 

 a new book devoted to the autumn wildflowers which bears 

 the title "Our Northern Autumn." In the same series have 

 previously appeared "Our Early Wildflowers" and "Wayside 

 Flowers of Summer." The latest volume aims to make the 

 reader familiar with the common flowers that bloom toward 

 the end of the year, but it is more than a "how to know" book 

 and contains much in the essay style which bears on the 

 general subject but which is not connected with the identifica- 

 tion of species. The author ought to give us still another 

 book of observations and impressions suggested by the passing 

 seasons, a field as yet practically untouched but one that :s 

 sure to yield important returns when worked. "Our Northern 



