Institute of Politics
a summer forum and round-table established in 1921 at Williams College, Massachusetts, for the general discussion by stunational interest and relationships. The plan originated with President Garfield of Williams, its purpose being the encouragement and promotion of a wider understanding of politics in general and of international affairs in particular. A board of advisers consisting of distinguished publicists and authorities on international law and history is in general control of the institute, whose first gathering took place in July and August of 1921, when courses of lectures were delivered by such distinguished scholars as Viscount Bryce, Count Teleky of Hungary, Signor Tittoni of the Italian Senate, and Baron Korff of Russia. In addition to such lectures, provision is made for round-table conferences in which all the members of the institute may participate, the discussions here being free and at the same time protected. The enrolled membership is made up largely of college teachers of political science, but the attendance of the first session also included Government officials, journalists, and publicists of several nations. At the conclusion of the session it was announced that funds for the maintenance of the institute for three years had been furnished by Mr. Bernard M. Baruch.
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Institution
in civil law, the appointment of a debtor as heir of a testator. Also a Christian educational establishment, with a school and college department, for teaching young Hindus and Mohammedans the religion and science of the West, chiefly through the medium of the English tongue. Chiefly Anglo- Indian.
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Instrument
in law, a document or writing, as the means of giving formal expression to an act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, or proceeding, as a deed, a contract, a writ, etc. In music, any mechanical contrivof sound. The ance for the production tion musical instruments employed are divided into the following classes: Stringed; wind; and pulsatile. The first and second class require no description. The pulsatile or percussion instruments are the kettle-drums, great drum, side drum, triangle, cymbals, and tambourine.
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Instrumentation
the art of using, in composition, the various instruments and combinations of the ORCHES- TRA (q. v.).
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Insufflation
in the Roman Catholic Church, the breathing, by the priest administering baptism, into the face of the recipient of the sacrament, to signify the new spiritual life which is to be breathed into his soul.
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Insulator
in electricity, a nonconductor of electricity so placed as to insulate a body. In thermotics, a nonconductor of heat placed so as to prevent the passage of heat to or from a body.
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Integral Calculus
a branch of mathematics, the converse of the differential calculus. Having a given or known differential, the integral calculus has for its object to find a function such that, being differentiated, it will produce the given differential. Such expression is called the integral of the differential. The operation of finding the primitive function or integral is called integration. Besides the method of finding the inof given differentials, the integral tegrals als calculus is also applied to various branches of mathematics, as well as to almost every branch of natural philosophy and engineering.
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Intellect
that faculty of the human soul or mind by which it receives or comprehends the ideas communicated to it by the senses or by perception, or other means, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; also the capacity for higher forms of knowledge as distinguished from the power to perceive and imagine. In the plural, wits, senses; as, to be disordered in the intellects.
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Intercalar
or INTERCALARY, in chronology, used of months, or shorter periods of time, inserted into the calendar to make the astronomical and civil years more nearly coincide. Romulus is said to have intercalated two months into the Roman year, which had hitherto consisted of 10 months only. INTERCHURCH WORLD MOVE- MENT, an attempt to unite some of the main enterprises of the Protestant churches, so as to avoid duplication of effort and waste of funds. The movement was started by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in December, 1918, when it invited the various Protestant denomina tions to send representatives to a meeting in New York to confer upon the need for co-operation the among churches. The result of the conference was the launching of the Interchurch World Movement with the object not of any organic union of the denominations but the attempt to see how much can be done effectively in common. A general committee from all the churches was selected of which S. Earl Taylor became the general secretary. As head of the Methodist Centenary Fund he had shown great executive capacity and organizing ability. The Committee set itself to work to first make a survey of world conditions and it has not completed this phase of the work. Friction appeared among the various denominations which resulted in a practical abandonment of the work in 1920.
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Intercommuning
LETTERS OF, an ancient writ issued by the Scotch Privy-council warning persons not to harbor rebels.
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Interlaken
(in'ter-lä-ken) ("between the lakes"), a village of Switzerland, in the beautiful valley of the Aar, between Lakes Thun and Brienz. Along the Walnut Avenue or Highway between the lakes there is an almost uninterrupted line of hotels and boarding-houses. The village is visited anually by 20,000 to 30,000 tourists, who make it their starting-point for reaching many of the most wonderful sights that the country affords, especially the Bernese Oberland, where are the Staubbach, Lauterbrunnen, the Grindelwald glaciers, etc. The nucleus of the village is a former monastery (founded 1130). Pop. about 4,000.
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Interlocutor
in Scotch law, a finding or judgment of a judge or court in a cause.
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International
THE. See So- CIALISM. COPYRIGHT. INTERNATIONAL See COPYRIGHT.
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International Date Line
. See Standard Time
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Interpleader
in law: (1) One who interpleads. (2) The pleadin incidentally or discussion of a point arisi rising, as it were, between or in the middle of a case, before the principal cause is deallowed that termined. Interpleader is charged to two the defendant may not be him; as severally where no fault is in against where one party brings detinue of goods the defendant upon a bailment , and another against him upon trover, ascertain there shall be interpleader to who has right to his action.
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