Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Samuel Bogoch, Assistant in Psychiatry, has succeeded in injecting brain ganglioside, a chemical constituent isolated from the brains of mice, into living mice to absorb two kinds of influenza viruses before they can reach their normal chemical receptors in the brain...
...Rogers says in his book, When you see this remember me Gertrude Stein in person, "The normal adolescent girl, busy with playmates, clothes, parties, school lessons, does not read Wordsworth, Scott, and other poets, a set of Shakespeare with notes, Burns, Congressional Records, encyclopedias; she does not absorb Shakespeare nor pore over Clarissa Harlowe, Fielding, Smollett, and a tremendous amount of history." Strangely, she already feared that there would not be enough books to fill her lifetime...
...commenting on your editorial, "The Case for the College" (CRIMSON of January 28, 1959), a thoughtful and provocative editorial which deserves the highest praise. The editorial itself is a partial refutation of one of its themes, namely, that formal academic requirements absorb too much of the energies of undergraduates, with resultant sacrifices to extra-curricular activities. On the basis of reading the CRIMSON over 40 years; I can only conclude that the CRIMSON reflects the improved quality of our better students...
...ritual was changed we must ask what this young Brahmin learned on his way to the Orient, and what he now learns at Harvard. In both cases we can discard the handful of useful facts and fancies acquired, since most college undergraduates, like most sailors, could absorb all these in a few weeks of hard work. We need a hypothesis more probable than that all America has suddenly realized, in the last fifty years, the ultimate importance of Veritas. If we are to have the remotest chance of making sense of higher learning, we must recognize that a university, like...
Learning is basic in the development of human intelligence. But the big, simple-minded computers of today are much like newborn infants, limited permanently to the abilities with which they were born. To develop as a human brain does, a machine should be able to absorb information, turn it into organized experience and act upon it with ever-increasing effectiveness...