Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Physical Seminar on Friday evening, Mr. Harding, '86, explained the action of geysers, illustrating by an interesting experiment, and Mr. McRae of the signal service, described the various forms of electro-meters. The next seminar will be on Friday...
...cage is a source of annoyance to the students themselves, and to the director. Seeing to what an extent the privileges of the gymnasium were abused, Dr. Sargent one afternoon last week, ordered all not dressed in gymnasium costumes to retire from the basement. We hope that this action will be continued in the future, and loafers, and strangers strictly forbidden access to the private portions of the building during the hours of exercise. Not only are such persons, even if perfectly innocent, in the way, but in case they are bent on evil purposes, the chances of success...
...could hardly have been asked. The air was bracing, without being too cold; there was not wind enough to interfere with the shooting, and the clear light gave uninterrupted view of the swiftly flying birds. As was to be expected, the scores showed the effect of the forced in action during the mid-years, and failed to reach the usual high average. The next meeting of the club, March 4, will probably bring out a large number of men. A match between scrub teams, shot at the close of the regular matches, resulted in a victory for the team captained...
...talk of freedom in still another sense when we say that we do something freely, gladly, or willingly. Here it is not a question of obstacles at all; our attention is not directed to the facility or possibility of the action, but to the pleasure we take in doing it. Not unlike this use is that by which we call what is voluntary or intentional free. Thus if a man has done something unawares, or under the influence of another, we say his action was not free; yet we do not necessarily imply that he was reluctant...
...does not prove that I went out, or am walking now, of my own free-will; on the contrary, my enjoyment, in so far as it has any bearing at all on my freedom, tends to discredit it; since it would be harder to assign a reason for my action, if I had gone out when to do so caused me trouble and annoyance. We might, in this case, look for such opposed motives as could have influenced me; but we should then be merely evading and postponing the real question. We may assume that men are swayed by motives...