Centennial Celebration of the University of Dhaka: A Pride for the Zoological Education and Research

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The Synchronized Efforts to Decipher the Molecular Basis for Soybean Maturity Loci E1, E2, and E3 That Regulate Flowering and Maturity

The general concept of photoperiodism, i.e., the photoperiodic induction of flowering, was established by Garner and Allard (1920). The genetic factor controlling flowering time, maturity, or photoperiodic responses was observed in soybean soon after the discovery of the photoperiodism. E1, E2, and E3 were named in 1971 and, thereafter, genetically characterized. At the centennial celebration of the discovery of photoperiodism in soybean, we recount our endeavors to successfully decipher the molecular bases for the major maturity loci E1, E2, and E3 in soybean. Through systematic efforts, we successfully cloned the E3 gene in 2009, the E2 gene in 2011, and the E1 gene in 2012. Recently, successful identification of several circadian-related genes such as PRR3a, LUX, and J has enriched the known major E1-FTs pathway. Further research progresses on the identification of new flowering and maturity-related genes as well as coordinated regulation between flowering genes will enable us to understand profoundly flowering gene network and determinants of latitudinal adaptation in soybean.

The Philosopher as an Artist Writ Large

Mexican muralism began as a manifestation of José Vasconcelos’ belief that beautiful environments produced more effective learning. He thought of muralism as decoration and hired his artists for that purpose. That what they created was to be Mexican was a given, but how it was to be Mexican went unspecified. The stained-glass window he commissioned from Roberto Montenegro, unveiled at the outset of the nation’s centennial celebration in 1921, took the jarabe tapatío (Mexican hat dance) as its theme. The commemorative events which followed the window’s unveiling underlined the post-revolutionary government’s intent to separate itself from the French taste associated with the dictatorship it had overthrown. Although the nation’s new leaders may not have had the means to impose a national aesthetic at the time, through its centennial celebration it pronounced itself firmly in favor of folk art as a sign of the national.

Florida and Retirement

This chapter discusses Anna Botsford and John Henry Comstock's journey to the South. First stopping in Richmond, Virginia, they traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; and Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of January of 1919, the Comstocks found themselves settled at St. George Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, to spend the winter there. The chapter also looks at the semi-centennial celebration of Cornell University in June of 1919. Anna continued teaching at the College of Agriculture and on July 31, she was made a full professor. She regarded it as a tribute to her long service, but it was also a tribute to the Department of Nature Study which she had built up. On April 17, 1920, the first part of Henry's Introduction to Entomology was published. Dealing with the structure and metamorphosis of insects, it was used in the Cornell laboratory. The chapter then considers Anna's retirement. On January 27, 1921, she gave her last lecture before the class of regular students of Cornell.

Unapologetic Apologetics: The Essence of Black Anglican Preaching

In his 1892 sermon preached at the centennial celebration of St. Thomas Church, Philadelphia, the Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter, bishop of New York, declared, “I do not think it would have been very strange if the colored race, after it had been freed, should have refused to follow the white people's God. It shows a higher order of intelligence and an acute discernment in the African race to have distinguished the good from the evil, in a religion that taught all men were brothers, and practiced the opposite.” In this brief homiletical observation, Bishop Potter captured the perennial challenge of the Afro-Anglican preacher, who, despite experience to the contrary, must demonstrate that the catholic and incarnational truths of the gospel are no less demonstrable in the lives of people of color. This article maintains that this is accomplished both apologetically, in the classical sense of its being argued on the basis of biblical and theological truths, yet unapologetically, in the colloquial sense of being straightforward and without apology, as in the homiletic offerings of such preachers as Demond Tutu, Walter Dennis, and Kelly Brown Douglas.

“The Painful Duty of This Tribunal”

The emergence of McCulloch v. Maryland as a foundational case of constitutional law stemmed from several factors, each coming together on its own separate timeline, converging on the years 1895 to 1901. These factors included the personal interest in John Marshall’s jurisprudence held by Supreme Court justices John Marshall Harlan and Horace Gray; the emergence of an autonomous legal profession; the related transition from the Grand Style to a common-law style in constitutional opinion writing; the publication of Harvard Professor James Bradley Thayer’s first-ever constitutional law casebook; and the conservative judicial reaction against the Populist movement. Marshall was canonized in a 1901 “John Marshall Day” centennial celebration consisting of conservative and backward-looking speeches that used Marshall as a symbol to validate conservative judicial activism and laissez-faire jurisprudence.